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<i>Burkholderia cepacia</i>Complex: Emerging Multihost Pathogens Equipped with a Wide Range of Virulence Factors and Determinants
3 Aug 2010
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The Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc) comprises at least 17 closely-related species of the beta-proteobacteria subdivision, widely distributed in natural and man-made inhabitats. Bcc bacteria are endowed with an extraordinary metabolic diversity and emerged in the 1980s as life-threatening and difficult-to-treat pathogens among patients suffering from cystic fibrosis. More recently, these bacteria became...
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