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The intestinal environment of surgical injury transforms Pseudomonas aeruginosa into a discrete hypervirulent morphotype capable of causing lethal peritonitis.
Surgery - 1 Jan 2013
Babrowski Trissa, Romanowski Kathleen, Fink David, Kim Moses, Gopalakrishnan Vissagan, Zaborina Olga, Alverdy John C
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BACKGROUND: Secondary peritonitis continues to carry a high mortality rate despite the aggressive use of imaging, drainage, and antibiotics. Although host factors and microbial burden contribute to the outcome of peritonitis, we propose a role for bacterial virulence as a determinant of outcome f...
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