Pseudomonas aeruginosa Genome Evolution in Patients and under the Hospital Environment. - BIG - Biologie du Cancer et de l'Infection (BCI) Access content directly
Journal Articles Pathogens Year : 2014

Pseudomonas aeruginosa Genome Evolution in Patients and under the Hospital Environment.

Abstract

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative environmental species and an opportunistic microorganism, establishing itself in vulnerable patients, such as those with cystic fibrosis (CF) or those hospitalized in intensive care units (ICU). It has become a major cause of nosocomial infections worldwide and a serious threat to Public Health because of overuse and misuse of antibiotics that have selected highly resistant strains against which very few therapeutic options exist. Herein is illustrated the intraclonal evolution of the genome of sequential isolates collected in a single CF patient from the early phase of pulmonary colonization to the fatal outcome. We also examined at the whole genome scale a pair of genotypically-related strains made of a drug susceptible, environmental isolate recovered from an ICU sink and of its multidrug resistant counterpart found to infect an ICU patient. Multiple genetic changes accumulated in the CF isolates over the disease time course including SNPs, deletion events and reduction of whole genome size. The strain isolated from the ICU patient displayed an increase in the genome size of 4.8% with major genetic rearrangements as compared to the initial environmental strain. The annotated genomes are given in free access in an interactive web application WallGene designed to facilitate large-scale comparative analysis and thus allowing investigators to explore homologies and syntenies between P. aeruginosa strains, here PAO1 and the five clinical strains described.
Fichier principal
Vignette du fichier
pathogens-03-00309.pdf (1.25 Mo) Télécharger le fichier
Origin : Publisher files allowed on an open archive

Dates and versions

hal-01458212 , version 1 (14-06-2023)

Identifiers

Cite

Céline Lucchetti-Miganeh, David Redelberger, Gaël Chambonnier, François Rechenmann, Sylvie Elsen, et al.. Pseudomonas aeruginosa Genome Evolution in Patients and under the Hospital Environment.. Pathogens, 2014, 3 (2), pp.309--40. ⟨10.3390/pathogens3020309⟩. ⟨hal-01458212⟩
244 View
28 Download

Altmetric

Share

Gmail Facebook X LinkedIn More