{"title":"Molecular investigation of <i>LasA</i>, <i>LasB</i>, and <i>PIV</i> genes in clinical isolates of <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> in Mazandaran Province, North Iran.","authors":"Sahar Mohammadi Baladezaee, Mehrdad Gholami, Elham Amiri, Hamid Reza Goli","doi":"10.3897/folmed.66.e124561","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>Pseudomonasaeruginosa plays an important role in hospital infections caused by several virulence factors, such as elastase and proteases. This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of LasA, LasB, and PIV genes, encoding these enzymes, in clinical isolates of P.aeruginosa.</p>","PeriodicalId":12415,"journal":{"name":"Folia medica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Folia medica","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3897/folmed.66.e124561","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Dentistry","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Aims: Pseudomonasaeruginosa plays an important role in hospital infections caused by several virulence factors, such as elastase and proteases. This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of LasA, LasB, and PIV genes, encoding these enzymes, in clinical isolates of P.aeruginosa.