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The genetic basis for the commitment to chronic versus acute infection in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
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The genetic basis for the commitment to chronic versus acute infection in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Timothy L Yahr and E Peter Greenberg
Molecular cell, Vol.16(4), pp.497-498
11/19/2004
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2004.11.009
PMID: 15546607
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Abstract

The opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa causes both acute and chronic airway infections. In a recent issue of Developmental Cell, Goodman et al. (2004) show that the RetS two-component gene regulatory module inversely controls expression of genes associated with acute and chronic infection.
Signal Transduction Mutation Genes, Bacterial Acute Disease Pseudomonas aeruginosa - genetics Pseudomonas aeruginosa - pathogenicity Genes, Regulator Gene Expression Profiling Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial Chronic Disease Pseudomonas Infections - microbiology Pseudomonas Infections - genetics

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