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Analysis of fliC variation among clinical isolates of Burkholderia cepacia.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Jul 1999
Winstanley Craig, Hales Barbara A, Morgan J Alun W, Gallagher Malcolm J, Puthucheary Svithri D, CISSé Moussa F, Hart C Anthony
Abstract excerpt
PCR and restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) typing of flagellin genes (fliC) from 57 clinical isolates of Burkholderia cepacia indicated that only type 11 flagellins were present. Twenty-two isolates previously identified as the epidemic UK cystic fibrosis strain were indistinguishable by this method, as were 11 isolates from a pseudo-outbreak in Senegal. Other clinical isolates, including 19 from...
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