Targeted deletion of Pf prophages from diversePseudomonas aeruginosaisolates impacts quorum sensing and virulence traits
Amelia K. Schmidt,
Caleb M. Schwartzkopf,
Julie D. Pourtois
et al.
Abstract:Pseudomonas aeruginosais an opportunistic bacterial pathogen that commonly causes medical hardware, wound, and respiratory infections. Temperate filamentous Pf phages that infectP. aeruginosaimpact numerous bacterial virulence phenotypes. Most work on Pf phages has focused on strain Pf4 and its hostP. aeruginosaPAO1. Expanding from Pf4 and PAO1, this study explores diverse Pf strains infectingP. aeruginosaclinical isolates. We describe a simple technique targeting the Pf lysogeny maintenance gene,pflM(PA0718),… Show more
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