Similar virulence properties of infection and colonization associated Free

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is one of the agents that are commonly implicated in nosocomial infections. However, it is also present as a commensal in various body sites of healthy persons, making the diagnosis of infection by culture difficult. A number of virulence factors expressed by the organism have been implicated in its pathogenicity. We undertook this study to identify the host and organism factors associated with infection.

Pathogenic, colonizing and environmental isolates were tested for , , the T3SS effector exoenzymes (, , and ) and genes, biofilm production and antimicrobial susceptibility. The isolates were further typed by RAPD.

Eighty-seven isolates from 61 patients, including 11 environmental isolates, were obtained. None of the virulence factors were found to be significantly associated with infection, and nor was the antimicrobial susceptibility. The presence of the gene and infection by MDR strains correlated significantly with the duration of hospital stay. Positivity for and genes was found to be strongly correlated with multi-drug resistance. positivity correlated strongly with fluoroquinolone resistance. Sinks in the ward and intensive care unit were found to be a niche for XDR . Eighty-five isolates were typeable using the ERIC2 primer, showing 71 distinct RAPD patterns with >15 % difference in UPGMA-generated dice coefficients.

positivity is associated with severe disease, as evidenced by the longer duration of hospital stay of these patients. However, the presence of virulence factors or multi-drug resistance in the cultured strain should not prompt the administration of anti-pseudomonal chemotherapy.

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