Virulence factors and epidemiology related to pseudomonas aeruginosa

ABSTRACT

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an important part of the psychrotrophic flora. This organism is able to proliferate in various environments such as water and soil. With its extremely versatile metabolism, it is possible to use a large variety of compounds, including toxic waste and multiple sources of carbon and nitrate as electron acceptor. In addition, its great capacity to adapt to a hostile environment and its many virulence factors allow it to take advantage of certain situations to infect several types of hosts such as plants, insects and animals. P. aeruginosa may be involved in the poisoning of food. It is highly pathogenic to immunocompromised subjects or weakened, causing a high rate of morbidity and mortality. Thus, P. aeruginosa can be found in skin infections in which the most serious attacks on large burned