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Endemicity and inter-city spread of Burkholderia cepacia genomovar III in cystic fibrosis.
The Journal of pediatrics - 1 Nov 2001
Chen J S, Witzmann K A, Spilker T, Fink R J, LiPuma J J
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OBJECTIVES: We sought to determine whether the same Burkholderia cepacia complex strain has persisted as the dominant clonal lineage among patients in a large cystic fibrosis (CF) treatment center during the past 2 decades. STUDY DESIGN: The inter-city spread of B cepacia through transfer of a colonized patient and the impact of infection control measures in containing inter-patient transmission were...
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