Thursday, 7 July 2011

pseudomonas aeruginosa

  • gram positive .
  • facultative anerobe.(can produce atp in presence and absence of oxygen through special metabolic process).
  • oppertunistic(oppertunity)>>for the healthy immuno system person do not affect him but people with supressed or comprmised immunity can cause dangerous diseases.
  •  It is found in soil, water, skin flora, and most man-made environments throughout the world. It thrives not only in normal atmospheres but also in hypoxic atmospheres, and has, thus, colonized many natural and artificial environments. 
  •  It uses a wide range of organic material for food, the versatility enables the organism to infect damaged tissues or people with reduced immunity. The symptoms of such infections are generalized inflammation and sepsis. If such colonizations occur in critical body organs, such as the lungs, the urinary tract, and kidneys, the results can be fatal. Because it thrives on most surfaces, this bacterium is also found on and in medical equipment, including catheters, causing cross-infections in hospitals and clinics. It is implicated in hot-tub rash. It is also able to decompose hydrocarbons and has been used to break down tarballs and oil from oil spills.
  • so most famous about pseudomonas aeruginosr is 
hot tube rach (

Hot tub folliculitis

هو طفح جلدى عادة فى منطقة الخصر وينتقل وينتشر فى احواض المساج والماء الساخن ولذلك سمى هوت تيوب 
hospital catheter cross infectin 
tar_balls breakdown
التار بول هى بقع الزيت التى توجد فى الماء نتيجة غرق ناقلة بترول على سبيل المثال السودومونس ايرو جنوزا تستطيع تحليلها 
تتميز البكتريا بأفرازات خضراء وزرقاء 


also infection with bacteria can come from water slide 
causing folliculitis(follicule itis)

Nomenclature

  • The word Pseudomonas means false unit, from the Greek pseudo- (Greekψευδοfalse) and monas (Latinmonas, from Greekμονοςa single unit). The stem word mon was used early in the history of microbiology to refer to germs, e.g., Kingdom Monera.
  • The species name aeruginosa is a Latin word meaning copper rust, as seen with the oxidized copper patina on the Statue of Liberty. This also describes the blue-green bacterial pigment seen in laboratory cultures of the species. This blue-green pigment is a combination of two metabolites of P. aeruginosa, pyocyanin (blue) and pyoverdine (green), which impart the blue-green characteristic color of cultures. Pyocyanin biosynthesis is regulated by quorum sensing as in the biofilms associated with colonization of the lungs in cystic fibrosis patients. Another assertion is that the word may be derived from the Greek prefix ae- meaning"old or aged, and the suffix ruginosa means wrinkled or bumpy.[14]
  • The derivations of pyocyanin and pyoverdine are of the Greek, with pyo-, meaning puscyanin, meaning blue, and verdine, meaning green

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