TY - JOUR AU - Pulcrano, Giovanna AU - Blasio, Francesco Antonio AU - Panellis, Dimitrios AU - Ciccone, Nunziata AU - Iula, Vita Dora AU - Del Pezzo, Mariassunta AU - Catania, Maria Rosaria AU - Rossano, Fabio PY - 2010/06/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Virulence factors in P. aeruginosa strains isolated from cystic fibrosis patients JF - Microbiologia Medica JA - Microbiol Med VL - 25 IS - 2 SE - Original Articles DO - 10.4081/mm.2010.2451 UR - https://www.pagepressjournals.org/mm/article/view/mm.2010.2451 SP - AB - Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the major pulmonary pathogen that causes morbidity and mortality in burned, immunocompromised and cystic fibrosis patients.Among the various virulence factors, type IV-pili, flagella, biofilm formation and alginate production play a major role in patogenicity of bacteria.The aim of our work is the study of these virulence factors in 14 P. aeruginosa strains with different phenotype choosen in the same sputum or in sputa collected in subsequent time of Cystic Fibrosis patients. ER -