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Diversity of the parB and repA genes of the Burkholderia cepacia complex and their utility for rapid identification of Burkholderia cenocepacia.
BMC microbiology - 7 Mar 2008
Drevinek Pavel, Baldwin Adam, Dowson Christopher G, Mahenthiralingam Eshwar
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Burkholderia cenocepacia is the most prominent species of the B. cepacia complex (Bcc), a group of nine closely related and difficult to identify bacteria that cause serious infections in patients with cystic fibrosis. Despite its clinical relevance, identification of B. cenocepacia as a single species is unavailable, as it splits by a widely used recA gene-based PCR identification method into...
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