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Genotypic analysis of Burkholderia cepacia isolates from 13 French cystic fibrosis centers.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Aug 1997
Segonds C, Bingen E, Couetdic G, Mathy S, Brahimi N, Marty N, Plesiat P, Michel-Briand Y, Chabanon G
Abstract excerpt
Burkholderia cepacia has been involved in outbreaks of pulmonary infection among patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), and the spread of a highly transmissible clone has been reported throughout the United Kingdom and Canada. These data prompted a DNA-based typing study of the strains recovered in French CF centers. Ninety-five isolates recovered from 71 patients attending 13 CF centers in 9 regions of France were...
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