Photorhabdus are Gram-negative nematode-symbiotic and insect-pathogenic bacteria. The species Photorhabdus asymbiotica can infect humans as well as insects. P. asymbiotica causes both locally invasive soft tissue infection and disseminated disease with bacteraemia. At present, there are 2 recognized subspecies, P. asymbiotica subsp. asymbiotica and P. asymbiotica subsp. australis.
Category
Bacterial infectious disease
Brite
Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Other bacterial diseases
1C4Y Other specified bacterial diseases
H01335 Photorhabdus asymbiotica infection
Genome-based classification of infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
Bacterial infections
Infections caused by enterobacteria
H01335 Photorhabdus asymbiotica infection
Wilkinson P, Waterfield NR, Crossman L, Corton C, Sanchez-Contreras M, Vlisidou I, Barron A, Bignell A, Clark L, Ormond D, Mayho M, Bason N, Smith F, Simmonds M, Churcher C, Harris D, Thompson NR, Quail M, Parkhill J, Ffrench-Constant RH
Title
Comparative genomics of the emerging human pathogen Photorhabdus asymbiotica with the insect pathogen Photorhabdus luminescens.
