Exposure to Bile Leads to the Emergence of Adaptive Signaling Variants in the Opportunistic Pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Exposure to Bile Leads to the Emergence of Adaptive Signaling Variants in the Opportunistic Pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa

The chronic colonization of the respiratory tract by the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the primary cause of morbidity and mortality in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. P. aeruginosa has been shown to undergo extensive genomic adaptation facilitating its persistence within the CF lun...

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Main Authors: Stephanie Flynn, F. Jerry Reen, Fergal O’Gara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
evolution
adaptation
pigmented
chronic
quorum sensing
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2019.02013/full

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