Human Infection with Photorhabdus Asymbiotica: an Emerging Bacterial Pathogen

Overview

Journal Microbes Infect

Publisher Elsevier

Specialties Allergy & Immunology
Microbiology

Date 2004 Mar 31

PMID 15049334

Citations 45

Authors

John Gerrard

Nicholas Waterfield

Renu Vohra

Richard Ffrench-Constant

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Abstract

The three currently recognised Photorhabdus species are bioluminescent bacteria that are pathogenic to insects. P. luminescens and P. temperata form a symbiotic relationship with nematodes that infect insects. P. asymbiotica, on the other hand, has only been isolated from human clinical specimens from the USA and Australia. The bacterium has been associated with locally invasive soft tissue and disseminated bacteraemic infections. An invertebrate vector for P. asymbiotica has not yet been identified.

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