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Epidemic spread of Pandoraea pulmonicola in a cystic fibrosis center
1 Dec 2015
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BACKGROUND: Pandoraea spp. are recently discovered bacteria, mainly recovered from cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, but their epidemiology and clinical significance are not well known. We describe an epidemic spread of Pandoraea pulmonicola from 2009 in our CF center, involving 6 out of 243 CF patients. METHODS: Bacterial identification used amplified ribosomal DNA restriction analysis (ARDRA), MALDI-TOF mass...
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