Abstract
There was concern that nosocomial person-to-person transmission of Burkholderia cepacia had occurred when two patients with cystic fibrosis shared a bathroom. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis demonstrated that the two isolates were unrelated. Subsequent testing of 34 stored isolates of B. cepacia demonstrated that no particular clone predominated in our hospital.
MeSH terms
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Burkholderia Infections / diagnosis*
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Burkholderia Infections / microbiology
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Burkholderia Infections / transmission
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Burkholderia cepacia / genetics*
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Burkholderia cepacia / isolation & purification
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Cross Infection / diagnosis*
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Cross Infection / prevention & control
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Cross Infection / transmission
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Cystic Fibrosis / complications
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Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field*
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Humans
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Infection Control / methods*
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Patient Isolation
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Phenotype
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Sputum / microbiology
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Victoria