Co-occurring microflora and mucin drive Pseudomonas aeruginosa diversification and pathoadaptation

MJ Bottery, HK Johansen, JW Pitchford… - ISME …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
While several environmental factors contribute to the evolutionary diversification of the
pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa during cystic fibrosis lung infections …

Rapid diversification of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in cystic fibrosis lung-like conditions

A Schick, R Kassen - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Chronic infection of the cystic fibrosis (CF) airway by the opportunistic pathogen
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality for adult CF …

Niche, not phylogeny, governs the response to oxygen availability among diverse Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains

S Shewaramani, R Kassen - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a ubiquitous opportunistic pathogen, is a leading cause of
chronic infection of airways in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. Chronic infections typically arise …

Pseudomonas aeruginosa evolutionary adaptation and diversification in cystic fibrosis chronic lung infections

C Winstanley, S O'Brien, MA Brockhurst - Trends in microbiology, 2016 - cell.com
Pseudomonas aeruginosa populations undergo a characteristic evolutionary adaptation
during chronic infection of the cystic fibrosis (CF) lung, including reduced production of …

Microevolution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to a Chronic Pathogen of the Cystic Fibrosis Lung

M Hogardt, J Heesemann - Between pathogenicity and commensalism, 2012 - Springer
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the leading pathogen of chronic cystic fibrosis (CF) lung
infection. Life-long persistance of P. aeruginosa in the CF lung requires a sophisticated …

Cystic Fibrosis-Niche Adaptation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Reduces Virulence in Multiple Infection Hosts

NI Lorè, C Cigana, I De Fino, C Riva, M Juhas… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
The opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa is able to thrive in diverse ecological
niches and to cause serious human infection. P. aeruginosa environmental strains are …

Recombination is a key driver of genomic and phenotypic diversity in a Pseudomonas aeruginosa population during cystic fibrosis infection

SE Darch, A McNally, F Harrison, J Corander… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract The Cystic Fibrosis (CF) lung harbors a complex, polymicrobial ecosystem, in which
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is capable of sustaining chronic infections, which are highly …

Evolutionary diversification of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in an artificial sputum model

EV Davies, CE James, MA Brockhurst, C Winstanley - BMC microbiology, 2017 - Springer
Background During chronic lung infections of cystic fibrosis patients Pseudomonas
aeruginosa populations undergo extensive evolutionary diversification. However, the …

The role of multispecies social interactions in shaping Pseudomonas aeruginosa pathogenicity in the cystic fibrosis lung

S O'Brien, JL Fothergill - FEMS microbiology letters, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a major pathogen in the lungs of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients.
However, it is now recognised that a diverse microbial community exists in the airways …

Environmental heterogeneity drives within-host diversification and evolution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

T Markussen, RL Marvig, M Gómez-Lozano, K Aanæs… - MBio, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Microbial population polymorphisms are commonly observed in natural environments,
including long-term infected hosts. However, the underlying processes promoting and …