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Characterization of small-colony-variant Stenotrophomonas maltophilia isolated from the sputum specimens of five patients with cystic fibrosis.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Feb 2007
Anderson Scott W, Stapp Jennifer R, Burns Jane L, Qin Xuan
Abstract excerpt
Cystic fibrosis (CF) patients are predisposed to chronic respiratory infection by nonfermentative gram-negative bacilli, including Stenotrophomonas maltophilia. S. maltophilia is highly resistant to most antibiotics, with the exception of sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim (SXT). SXT-resistant S. maltophilia has been reported, but the mechanism of resistance is not well defined. Repeated findings of suspected...
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