The Pseudomonas aeruginosa population among Cystic Fibrosis patients in Quebec, Canada: a disease hot spot without known epidemic isolates

Julie Jeukens (1) , Luca Freschi (1) , Irena Kukavica-Ibrulj (1) , Jean-Guillaume Emond-Rheault (1) , Christian Allard (2) , Jean Barbeau (3) , André Cantin (4) , Steve J. Charette (1, 5) , Eric Déziel (6) , François Malouin (4) , Julie Milot (5) , Dao Nguyen (7) , Clara Popa (8) , Brian Boyle (1) , Roger Levesque (1)

1 IBIS - Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes [Québec]
2 CSSSC - Centre de santé et de service sociaux de Chicoutimi
3 UdeM - Université de Montréal
4 UdeS - Université de Sherbrooke
5 IUCPQ - Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec
6 INRS-IAF - Institut Armand Frappier
7 McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada]
8 CISSS - Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingu [Rouyn-Noranda]

The Canadian province of Quebec has among the highest prevalence rates of Cystic Fibrosis (CF) in the world, with an average of 1 in 2,500 newborns, and up to 1 in 902 in the region of Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean ...

Keywords: Pseudomonas aeruginosa; cystic fibrosis; clonal strains; epidemic strains; genomes; genomics; molecular epidemiology

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]

Julie Jeukens, Luca Freschi, Irena Kukavica-Ibrulj, Jean-Guillaume Emond-Rheault, Christian Allard, et al.. The Pseudomonas aeruginosa population among Cystic Fibrosis patients in Quebec, Canada: a disease hot spot without known epidemic isolates. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2019, 57 (6), pp.e02019-18. ⟨10.1128/JCM.02019-18⟩. ⟨pasteur-02133021⟩