Title |
Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical and environmental isolates constitute a single population with high phenotypic diversity
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Published in |
BMC Genomics, April 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2164-15-318 |
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Authors |
María-Victoria Grosso-Becerra, Christian Santos-Medellín, Abigail González-Valdez, José-Luis Méndez, Gabriela Delgado, Rosario Morales-Espinosa, Luis Servín-González, Luis-David Alcaraz, Gloria Soberón-Chávez |
Abstract |
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen with a high incidence of hospital infections that represents a threat to immune compromised patients. Genomic studies have shown that, in contrast to other pathogenic bacteria, clinical and environmental isolates do not show particular genomic differences. In addition, genetic variability of all the P. aeruginosa strains whose genomes have been sequenced is extremely low. This low genomic variability might be explained if clinical strains constitute a subpopulation of this bacterial species present in environments that are close to human populations, which preferentially produce virulence associated traits. |
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