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Diversity and epidemiological profile of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from drinking water in Brazil genotyped using multi-locus sequence typing.
Letters in applied microbiology - 1 Sept 2023
Costa Paula Vasconcelos, Nascimento Janaína Dos Santos, Forsythe Stephen James, Brandão Marcelo Luiz Lima
Abstract excerpt
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative bacillus associated with waterborne diseases. The objective of this study was to determine whether particular P. aeruginosa sequence types (STs) were associated with drinking water contamination in Brazil. This was achieved by searching the Pseudomonas PubMLST database, which contains the records for 8358 strains collected between 1938 and 2023. The majority (97.2%) had...
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