Pseudomonas aeruginosa: a beautiful opportunist

Abstract

Bacteria are infinitely older tan man and reproduce faster, every fifteen minutes and in one hour they have four generations, while man needs a century for have the same, so that in the long bacterial existence we are just a tiny accident. All the wonderful machinery assembled in a single bacterium of the species Pseudomonas aeruginosa it was not planned against us, including quorum sensing, efflux pumps, integrons, biofilm and pyocins, already presents in their natural or planktonic life. Her adaptation to hospital life forced to study this wonderful creature, and the organization of such multiple capacities suggests the existence of a vital purpose, a kind of bacterial intelligence, contrary to Jacques Monod's thesis, which estimate life in this planet as the result of chance and necessity.