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It was found that cyanide is produced in<jats:italic>P. aeruginosa<\/jats:italic>at similar levels irrespective of its complement of CIO, indicating that the CIO is not an obligatory electron sink for cyanide synthesis. However, MICs for cyanide and growth in its presence demonstrated that the CIO provides<jats:italic>P. aeruginosa<\/jats:italic>with protection against the effects of exogenous cyanide. Nevertheless, the presence of cyanide did not affect the viability of<jats:italic>cio<\/jats:italic>mutant strains compared to the wild-type during prolonged incubation in stationary phase. The detection of the fermentation end products acetate and succinate in stationary-phase culture supernatants suggests that<jats:italic>P. aeruginosa<\/jats:italic>, irrespective of its CIO complement, may in part rely upon fermentation for energy generation in stationary phase. Furthermore, the decrease in cyanide levels during incubation in sealed flasks suggested that active breakdown of HCN by the culture was taking place. To investigate the possibility that the CIO may play a role in pathogenicity, wild-type and<jats:italic>cio<\/jats:italic>mutant strains were tested in the paralytic killing model of<jats:italic>Caenorhabditis elegans<\/jats:italic>, a model in which cyanide is the principal toxic agent leading to nematode death. 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