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ArticleInternational ophthalmology2019

Genetic features of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates associated with eye infections referred to Farabi Hospital, Tehran, Iran.

Farahnoosh Doustdar, Fatemeh Karimi, Zohreh Abedinyfar, Fahimeh Asadi Amoli, Hossein Goudarzi

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Article in International ophthalmology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Antibiotic resistance mechanisms and global resistance patterns of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in microbial keratitis.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2026
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  5. Antimicrobial resistance, virulence factors, and genotypes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates from Gorgan, northern Iran.International microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology · 2022
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  6. Differentially Expressed Genes ofInfection and drug resistance · 2022
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Farahnoosh DoustdarDepartment of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. f_doustdar@sbum.ac.ir.
Fatemeh KarimiDepartment of Biology, Faculty of Science, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran.
Zohreh AbedinyfarDepartment of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Fahimeh Asadi AmoliDepartment of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Hossein GoudarziDepartment of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences · IRAzarbaijan Shahid Madani University · IRTehran University of Medical Sciences · IR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundPseudomonas is the most common cause of microbial keratitis especially in people who use contact lens. The virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in different eye infections is associated with different virulence factors .

methodsIn this study, 54 P. aeruginosa isolates including 39 isolates from keratitis and 15 isolates from conjunctivitis were evaluated for their ability to form biofilm, production of protease, elastase, alkaline protease and their antibiotic-resistant patterns. The distribution of the exoS and exoU genes in the test strains were determined using PCR assays.

resultsMost of the eye infections (90.74%) were seen in people who used contact lenses, and in most of patients (72.22%), the infection was presented as keratitis. None of the isolates were resistant to a single antibiotic as tested. Multidrug resistance (MDR) was detected in two isolates (3.5%) which were resistant to more than one category of antibiotics. The exoU

conclusionsIn our study, a high prevalence of virulence factors was observed in P. aeruginosa isolates from contact lens wearer with keratitis. As the P. aeruginosa isolates from different infection origins and different geographic region may have different virulence factors, having a better perception of these differences could help to improve development of clinical instructions for the control of keratitis.

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AdultBiofilmsDNA, BacterialEye Infections, BacterialFemaleGenotypeHumansIncidenceIranKeratitisMalePseudomonas aeruginosaPseudomonas InfectionsRetrospective StudiesYoung AdultDNA, BacterialContact lensExotoxinsEye infectionsPseudomonas aeruginosaVirulence factors

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