Double-Face Meets the Bacterial World: The Opportunistic Pathogen Stenotrophomonas maltophilia.

ABSTRACT: Most studies on bacterial virulence focus on the pathogen itself. However, it is important to recall that the in-host behavior and the virulence of bacterial pathogens constitute a complex situation that depends on both the microorganisms and the infected host. While healthy people (the community) is infected by classical pathogenic microorganisms, able to cope with the anti-infection defenses of the host, in the case of people with basal diseases, debilitated or immunodepressed, the range of pathogens able to cause infection is wider and includes the so-named opportunistic pathogens, which lack the inherent ability to cause disease in healthy hosts and rarely produce infections in the community. Some of the most relevant opportunistic pathogens, as Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, hav

SUBMITTER: Lira F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5684188 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature