Pseudomonas aeruginosa can cause disease in immunocompromised people. What are two characteristics - either epidemiological or part of its biology - that make P. aeruginosa an important opportunistic pathogen?     Its lack of endotoxin in cell walls helps it stay "invisible" to phagocytes     It forms endospores     It is common in its environmental reservoir     It is resistant to many disinfectants and antibiotics

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Pseudomonas aeruginosa can cause disease in immunocompromised people. What are two characteristics - either epidemiological or part of its biology - that make P. aeruginosa an important opportunistic pathogen?

   

Its lack of endotoxin in cell walls helps it stay "invisible" to phagocytes

   

It forms endospores

   

It is common in its environmental reservoir

   

It is resistant to many disinfectants and antibiotics

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