openalexFrontiers in Microbiology2026-07-23
Integron architecture and virulence-associated gene profiles in extensively drug-resistant high-risk Pseudomonas aeruginosa ST309 and ST233
José Luis Fernández-Vázquez, Ma Dolores Jarillo-Quijada, Santiago Castillo‐Ramírez, María Luisa Hernández-Medel, Manuelita Zavala-Pineda, Mónica Osorio-Guzmán, et al.
Background Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a major cause of healthcare-associated infections and exhibits considerable genomic plasticity, which allows the accumulation and structural organization of resistance determinants while retaining virulence-associated traits in some high-risk…