DISEASE: Photorhabdus asymbiotica infection

Entry

H01335                      Disease

Name

Photorhabdus asymbiotica infection

Description

Photorhabdus are Gram-negative nematode-symbiotic and insect-pathogenic bacteria. The species Photorhabdus asymbiotica can infect humans as well as insects. P. asymbiotica causes both locally invasive soft tissue infection and disseminated disease with bacteraemia. At present, there are 2 recognized subspecies, P. asymbiotica subsp. asymbiotica and P. asymbiotica subsp. australis.

Category

Infectious disease

Brite

Infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
Bacterial infections
Infections caused by enterobacteria
H01335 Photorhabdus asymbiotica infection

Pathogen

Photorhabdus asymbiotica

Reference

PMID:19583835

Authors

Wilkinson P, Waterfield NR, Crossman L, Corton C, Sanchez-Contreras M, Vlisidou I, Barron A, Bignell A, Clark L, Ormond D, Mayho M, Bason N, Smith F, Simmonds M, Churcher C, Harris D, Thompson NR, Quail M, Parkhill J, Ffrench-Constant RH

Title

Comparative genomics of the emerging human pathogen Photorhabdus asymbiotica with the insect pathogen Photorhabdus luminescens.

Journal

BMC Genomics 10:302 (2009)
DOI:10.1186/1471-2164-10-302

Reference

PMID:17176572

Authors

Gerrard JG, Joyce SA, Clarke DJ, ffrench-Constant RH, Nimmo GR, Looke DF, Feil EJ, Pearce L, Waterfield NR

Title

Nematode symbiont for Photorhabdus asymbiotica.

Journal

Emerg Infect Dis 12:1562-4 (2006)
DOI:10.3201/eid1210.060464

Reference

PMID:18538616

Authors

Kuwata R, Yoshiga T, Yoshida M, Kondo E

Title

Mutualistic association of Photorhabdus asymbiotica with Japanese heterorhabditid entomopathogenic nematodes.

Journal

Microbes Infect 10:734-41 (2008)
DOI:10.1016/j.micinf.2008.03.010

Reference

PMID:27726002

Authors

Hapeshi A, Waterfield NR

Title

Photorhabdus asymbiotica as an Insect and Human Pathogen.

Journal

Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 402:159-177 (2017)
DOI:10.1007/82_2016_29

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