Identification of a Genomic Island Present in the Majority of Pathogenic Isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

X Liang, XQT Pham, MV Olson, S Lory - Journal of bacteriology, 2001 - Am Soc Microbiol
Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a ubiquitous gram-negative bacterium, is capable of colonizing a
wide range of environmental niches and can also cause serious infections in humans. In …

Genome Diversity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 Laboratory Strains

J Klockgether, A Munder, J Neugebauer… - Journal of …, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 is the most commonly used strain for research on this
ubiquitous and metabolically versatile opportunistic pathogen. Strain PAO1, a derivative of …

Extensive Genomic Plasticity in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Revealed by Identification and Distribution Studies of Novel Genes among Clinical Isolates

K Shen, S Sayeed, P Antalis, J Gladitz… - Infection and …, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
The distributed genome hypothesis (DGH) states that each strain within a bacterial species
receives a unique distribution of genes from a population-based supragenome that is many …

Population structure of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

L Wiehlmann, G Wagner, N Cramer… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
The metabolically versatile Gram-negative bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa inhabits
terrestrial, aquatic, animal-, human-, and plant-host-associated environments and is an …

Whole-Genome Sequence Variation among Multiple Isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

DH Spencer, A Kas, EE Smith, CK Raymond… - Journal of …, 2003 - Am Soc Microbiol
Whole-genome shotgun sequencing was used to study the sequence variation of three
Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates, two from clonal infections of cystic fibrosis patients and …

A combined physical and genetic map of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO

E Ratnaningsih, S Dharmsthiti… - …, 1990 - microbiologyresearch.org
A combined physical and genetic map of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO was constructed
by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and Southern hybridization using cosmid clones from a …

Conservation of genome content and virulence determinants among clinical and environmental isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

MC Wolfgang, BR Kulasekara… - Proceedings of the …, 2003 - National Acad Sciences
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a ubiquitous environmental bacterium capable of causing a
variety of life-threatening human infections. The genetic basis for preferential infection of …

Genetic and Phenotypic Characterization of a Pseudomonas aeruginosa Population with High Frequency of Genomic Islands

R Morales-Espinosa, G Soberon-Chavez… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Various genomic islands, PAPI-1, PAPI-2, PAGI-1, PAGI-2, PAGI-3, and PAGI-4, and the
element pKLC102 have been characterized in different P. aeruginosa strains from diverse …

Hybrid Pathogenicity Island PAGI-5 Contributes to the Highly Virulent Phenotype of a Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolate in Mammals

SE Battle, F Meyer, J Rello, VL Kung… - Journal of …, 2008 - Am Soc Microbiol
Most known virulence determinants of Pseudomonas aeruginosa are remarkably conserved
in this bacterium's core genome, yet individual strains differ significantly in virulence. One …

Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical and environmental isolates constitute a single population with high phenotypic diversity

MV Grosso-Becerra, C Santos-Medellín… - BMC genomics, 2014 - Springer
Background Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen with a high incidence
of hospital infections that represents a threat to immune compromised patients. Genomic …