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Genotyping of different Pseudomonas aeruginosa morphotypes arising from the lower respiratory tract of a patient taken to an Intensive Care Unit.
International journal of immunopathology and pharmacology - 1 Jan 2000
Putignani L, Sessa R, Petrucca A, Manfredini C, Coltella L, Menichella D, Nicoletti M, Russo C, Cipriani P
Abstract excerpt
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen and an ubiquitous environmental bacterium. Fifty-seven days after hospitalization, we isolated three distinct P. aeruginosa morphotypes (smooth, rough and mucoid) from the lower respiratory tract of a patient admitted to a Cardiology Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Moreover, a group of nine colony variants, arising from the three P. aeruginosa isolates growing in...
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