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Phenotypes of isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a diabetes care center.
Archives of medical research - 1 Jan 2006
Muthu Shankar Esaki, Aberna R Arularasi, Mohan Viswanathan, Premalatha G, Srinivasan R Sanjai, Thyagarajan Sadras Panchatcharam, Rao Usha Anand
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BACKGROUND: Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an invasive organism that frequently causes severe tissue damage in diabetic foot ulcers. A major problem in P. aeruginosa infection may be that this pathogen exhibits a high degree of resistance to a broad spectrum of antibiotics. Some researchers feel that P. aeruginosa is a homogeneous species, whereas others have suggested that they are panmictic. Here we characterized P....
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