{"id":344935,"date":"2025-08-22T17:45:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T12:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=344935"},"modified":"2025-08-22T17:45:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T12:15:18","slug":"pseudomonas-aeruginosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pseudomonas-aeruginosa\/","title":{"rendered":"Pseudomonas Aeruginosa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News<\/strong>&#8211; Recently, scientists from the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany, discovered that a gene in the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa exhibits bistable expression.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_344937\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-344937\" style=\"width: 551px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-344937\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Pseudomonas-Aeruginosa.png?resize=551%2C311&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Pseudomonas Aeruginosa\" width=\"551\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Pseudomonas-Aeruginosa.png?w=760&amp;ssl=1 760w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Pseudomonas-Aeruginosa.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-344937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source- The Hindu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>About Pseudomonas Aeruginosa<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <em>gram-negative, aerobic, non-spore forming, rod-shaped bacterium.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>It is commonly <em>found in the environment, particularly freshwater<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>It is capable of causing a variety of infections in both <em>immunocompetent and immunocompromised hosts<\/em><\/li>\n<li>It is a frequent cause of hospital-acquired infections, including ventilator-associated pneumonia and catheter-related urinary tract infections.<\/li>\n<li>It also causes several community-acquired infections such as folliculitis, osteomyelitis (from puncture wounds), pneumonia, and otitis externa.<\/li>\n<li>It is also a <em>major cause of keratitis (eye infection).<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid; background-color: #fdffe8;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Bistable Expression in Bacteria<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two bacteria with the same genetic makeup can still behave differently, like siblings with different personalities. One may keep a gene strongly \u201con,\u201d while another keeps it weak or \u201coff.\u201d These patterns are inherited by offspring, a phenomenon called bistability.<\/li>\n<li>Bistability works as a survival strategy, helping bacteria adapt to changing environments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News&#8211; Recently, scientists from the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany, discovered that a gene in the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa exhibits bistable expression. About Pseudomonas Aeruginosa It is a gram-negative, aerobic, non-spore forming, rod-shaped bacterium. It is commonly found in the environment, particularly freshwater. It is capable of causing a variety of infections in both&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pseudomonas-aeruginosa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pseudomonas Aeruginosa<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-344935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}