Article
Identification of virulence genes in a pathogenic strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by representational difference analysis.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Feb 2002
Choi Ji Young, Sifri Costi D, Goumnerov Boyan C, Rahme Laurence G, Ausubel Frederick M, Calderwood Stephen B
Abstract excerpt
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen that may cause severe infections in humans and other vertebrates. In addition, a human clinical isolate of P. aeruginosa, strain PA14, also causes disease in a variety of nonvertebrate hosts, including plants, Caenorhabditis elegans, and the greater wax moth, Galleria mellonella. This has led to the development of a multihost pathogenesis system in which plants,...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
