Article
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...
Topics
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Burkholderia cepacia
- Cystic Fibrosis
- DNA, Bacterial
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
- France
- Genotype
- Humans
- Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Technique
- Species Specificity