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High genotypic diversity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated from patients with cystic fibrosis in the Czech Republic.
Research in microbiology - 1 May 2007
Vosahlikova Sarka, Drevinek Pavel, Cinek Ondrej, Pohunek Petr, Maixnerova Martina, Urbaskova Pavla, van den Reijden Tanny J K, Dijkshoorn Lenie, Nemec Alexandr
Abstract excerpt
Over the last decade, epidemic and frequently multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa has increasingly been found among European cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. In the Czech Republic, more than half of the registered CF patients attend the Prague CF centre. At this centre, a Burkholderia cenocepacia strain was recently found to have spread among the patients. The aim of the present study was to assess whether...
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