… contemporary infection in our isolates. Our collection includes nonepidemic strains and a
transmissible, epidemic strain … Infection with an epidemic strain confers a poorer prognosis than …

… Epidemic strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa have been found … Using pulse-field gel
electrophoresis, the Prairie Epidemic Strain … were observed to experience strain replacement upon …

… More worryingly, some of these epidemic strains are associated with increased morbidity …
non-epidemic strains [14, 15]. While the precise method of transmission of epidemic strains of P…

… aeruginosa in previous sputum cultures, and, as previously described, four patients with the
epidemic strain in 1999 now had only nonepidemic … epidemic versus nonepidemic strains (1 …

… SNPs separated the 20 P. aeruginosa strains sequenced in this study into these previously
reported groups (fig. 1A). One strain, HIAE_PA16, is a hybrid strain with genomic regions …

… [34], where LESB58 clustered with and was indistinguishable from Canadian isolates of
the LES in a phylogenetic analysis of epidemic and non-epidemic strains of P. …

… non-epidemic strains and the Manchester epidemic strain of … aeruginosa did not appear
to have a survival advantage within the aerosols when compared to the non-epidemic strains. …

… In choosing our CF isolates (epidemic and nonepidemic strains) we sought to represent
phenotypes typically associated with such isolates, such as mucoidy, hypervirulence, loss of …

… -2 show increased production of virulence factors, such as protease IV, elastase and alkaline
protease, than other non-epidemic strain CF isolates [71, 85]. A third putative transmissible …

… 0:II, they could not differentiate epidemic and nonepidemic isolates of serotype 0 :12.These
data are consistent with those ofPitt et al. [19], who documented a clonal origin for …