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Use of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis in infection control issues concerning Burkholderia cepacia.
Infection control and hospital epidemiology - 1 Aug 2003
Jenney Adam, Liolios Lisa, Spelman Denis, Russo Philip, Wilson John, Wesselingh Steven, Kotsimbos Tom
Abstract excerpt
There was concern that nosocomial person-to-person transmission of Burkholderia cepacia had occurred when two patients with cystic fibrosis shared a bathroom. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis demonstrated that the two isolates were unrelated. Subsequent testing of 34 stored isolates of B. cepacia demonstrated that no particular clone predominated in our hospital.
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