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Table 1 Biosurfactant production by pathogenic bacterial strains
Biosurfactants
Pathogenic producers
Pathogenicity
References
Rhamnolipids
Pseudomonas
aeruginosa
Cystic fi brosis, respiratory
infections, multidrug resistant
Thavasi et al. ( 2011b ),
Jorfi et al. ( 2013 ), Kownatzi
et al. ( 1987 )
Burkholderia cepacia
Lung infection, pneumonia
St Denis et al. ( 2007 ), Yalçin
and Ergene ( 2010 )
Burkholderia
pseudomallei
Melioidosis
Andrea et al. ( 2008 ), Howe
et al. ( 2006 )
Burkholderia plantarii
Fire blight disease of apple
and pear trees
Hörmann et al. ( 2010 ),
Mitchell and Teh ( 2005 )
Burkholderia glumae
Rot of rice grains and
seedlings
Urakami et al. ( 1994 ), Costa
et al. ( 2011 )
Renibacterium
salmoninarum
Bacterial kidney disease of
salmonid fi sh
Christova et al. ( 2004 ), Wiens
et al. ( 2008 )
Glycolipids
Pantoae agglomerans
Bacteraemia, wound
infection, arthritis, infection
of soft tissues bones and
joints in children
Vasileva-Tonkova and
Geshava ( 2007 ), Jacobucci
et al. ( 2009 ), Koo et al. ( 2006 )
Nocardia
otitidiscaviarum
Pulmonary nocardiosis, brain
abscess, actinomycetoma
Vyas and Dave ( 2011 ), Pelaez
et al. ( 2009 ), Chi et al. ( 2013 )
Alcaligenes faecalis
Post-operative
endophthalmitis, peritonitis
Kaliaperumal et al. ( 2006 ),
Kahveci et al. ( 2011 ),
Bharali et al. ( 2011 )
Trehalose mycolates
Acinetobacter
calcoaceticus IMV
B-7241
Urinary tract infections,
respiratory tract infections,
post-operative infections
Pirog et al. ( 2013 ),
Pal and Kale ( 1981 )
Phospholipids
Klebsiella pneumoniae
Haemorrhage/necrosis, upper
and lower respiratory tract
infections, osteomyelitis,
UTI, diarrhoea, wound
infection, meningitis,
bacteraemia, septicaemia,
ankylosing spondylitis
Jamal et al. ( 2012 ), Rashid
and Ebringer ( 2007 ), Ryan
and Ray ( 2004 ), Limbago
et al. ( 2012 )
Lipopeptides
Serratia marcescens
Urinary tract infections,
nosocomial bacteraemia,
meningitis, endocarditis
Ibrahim et al. ( 2013 ),
Anyanwu et al. ( 2010 ),
Körner et al. ( 1994 )
Inquilinus limosus
KB3
Cystic fi brosis, multidrug-
resistant lung infections
Saimmai et al. ( 2013 ),
Wellinghausen et al. ( 2005 ),
Hayes et al. ( 2009 )
Heteropolysaccharides
Cronobacter sakazakii
Bacteraemia, meningitis,
necrosis, enterocolitis,
contamination of infant
formula
Lai ( 2001 ), Jain et al. ( 2012 ),
CDC ( 2002 )
associated with lung infections and pneumonia in
humans of all ages (St Denis et al. 2007 ).
Similarly, B. pseudomallei , a biosurfactant pro-
ducer (Howe et al. 2006 ), is a facultative intracel-
lular pathogen, although the mechanism of its
intracellular survival is yet unknown. This patho-
gen is the causative agent of melioidosis, an infec-
tious disease endemic to Southeast Asia, northern
Australia and tropical and subtropical regions
(Andrea et al. 2008 ). The di-rhamnolipids from B.
pseudomallei have been found to exhibit serious
cytotoxic effects on macrophages non-phagocytic
and phagocytic cell lines (Sierra 1960 ; Kharazmi
et al. 1989 ; Johnson and Boese-Marrazzo
1980 ; Fujita et al. 1988 ). Di-rhamnolipids have
also been reported to be cytolytic to human
 
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