Endogenous origin of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infecting hospitalized patients in Ecuador

• Main Authors: Gabriela Vasco (Author), Mishell Achig (Author), Belén Prado-Vivar (Author), Maritza Páez (Author), Franklin Espinosa (Author), Evelyn Espinoza (Author), Danny Quinancela (Author), Paul Cardenas (Author), Gabriel Trueba (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2024-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary: Recent evidence suggests that Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacterium that has the ability to cause deadly infections in hospitalized patients, could originate in the patient's own flora. We employed the Oxford Nanopore platform to obtain whole genome sequences (WGS) from clinical and rect...