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Molecular detection of an atypical, highly resistant, clonal Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolate in cystic fibrosis patients.
Journal of cystic fibrosis : official journal of the European Cystic Fibrosis Society - 1 Mar 2013
Keating Deirdre, Crowe Mary J, Kennedy Barry, Salmon Abigail, Britton David, Gallagher Charles G, McKone Edward F, Schaffer Kirsten
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BACKGROUND: The identification of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) isolates in sputum from cystic fibrosis (CF) patients can be challenging due to the multitude of phenotypic changes isolates undergo during adaptation to the microenvironment of the CF lung. METHODS: We report the occurrence of shared P. aeruginosa isolates which failed identification by phenotypic methodologies and required species specific...
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