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Colonial morphology of Burkholderia cepacia complex genomovar III: implications in exopolysaccharide production, pilus expression, and persistence in the mouse.
Infection and immunity - 1 Feb 2003
Chung Jacqueline W, Altman Eleonora, Beveridge Terry J, Speert David P
Abstract excerpt
The purpose of this study was to determine the role of colonial morphology of Burkholderia cepacia complex (BCC) organisms in pathogenicity in a mouse model of pulmonary infection. BCC strain C1394 was rapidly cleared by leukopenic mice after intranasal challenge, whereas a spontaneous variant (C1394mp2) that was indistinguishable from the parent strain by genetic typing persisted in the lungs and differed in...
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