Study on pyoverdine and biofilm production with detection of LasR gene in MDR .

In cystic fibrosis individuals, chronic lung infections and hospital-acquired pneumonia are caused by . generates siderophores such as pyoverdine (PVD) as iron uptake systems to cover its needs of iron ions for growth and infection. quorum sensing (QS) gene has a crucial function in PVD production and biofilm generation in .