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

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BACKGROUND:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen with a high incidence of hospital infections that represents a threat to immune compromised patients. Genomic studies have shown that, in contrast to other pathogenic bacteria, clinical and environmental isolates do not show particular genomic differences. In addition, genetic variability of all the P. aeruginosa strains whose genomes have been sequenced is extremely low. This low genomic variability might be explained if clinical strains constitute a subpopulation of this bacterial species present in environments that are close to human populations, which preferentially produce virulence associated traits. RESULTS:In this work, we sequenced the genomes and performed phenotypic descriptions for four non-human P. aeruginosa isolates collected from a plant, the ocean, a water-spring, and from dolphin stomach. We show that the four strains are phenotypically diverse and that this is not reflected in genomic variability, since their genomes are almost identical. Furthermore, we performed a detailed comparative genomic analysis of the four strains studied in this work with the thirteen previously reported P. aeruginosa genomes by means of describing their core and pan-genomes. CONCLUSIONS:Contrary to what has been described for other bacteria we have found that the P. aeruginosa core genome is constituted by a high proportion of genes and that its pan-genome is thus relatively small. Considering the high degree of genomic conservation between isolates of P. aeruginosa from diverse environments, including human tissues, some implications for the treatment of infections are discussed. This work also represents a methodological contribution for the genomic study of P. aeruginosa, since we provide a database of the comparison of all the proteins encoded by the seventeen strains analyzed.

journal_name

BMC Genomics

journal_title

BMC genomics

authors

Grosso-Becerra MV,Santos-Medellín C,González-Valdez A,Méndez JL,Delgado G,Morales-Espinosa R,Servín-González L,Alcaraz LD,Soberón-Chávez G

doi

10.1186/1471-2164-15-318

subject

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pub_date

2014-04-28 00:00:00

pages

318

issn

1471-2164

pii

1471-2164-15-318

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