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Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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Pseudomonas aeruginosa [‚süd·ə‚mōn·əs ‚ar·ə·jə′nō·sə]
(microbiology)
An opportunistic pathogen that is the most significant cause of hospital-acquired infections, particularly in predisposed patients with metabolic, hematologic, and malignant diseases. It produces toxic factors such as lipase, esterase, lecithinase, elastase, and endotoxin, some of which may contribute to its pathogenesis.


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xylosoxidans is innately resistant to many antimicrobial drugs (2), except piperacillin, piperacillin-tazobactam, and imipenem, and moderately susceptible to ceftazidime (45% of susceptible isolates), which is widely used to treat infection due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa (3,4).
It exerts strong antibacterial effects against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, aerobes, anaerobes as well as Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa lives harmlessly in the intestines of about 3 percent of healthy people.
 
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