The emergence of a highly transmissible lineage of cbl+pseudomonas (Burkholderia) cepacia causing CF centre epidemics in North America and Britain

Nature Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 1995, Pages 661-666

  Sun, Li ^a   Jiang, Ru Zhang ^a   Steinbach, Suzanne ^a   Holmes, Alison ^a   Campanelli, Craig ^a   Forstner, Janet ^b   Sajjan, Uma ^b   Tan, Ying ^c   Riley, Margaret ^c   Goldstein, Richard ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MUCIN; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM PILUS; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE; GENOTYPE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; UNITED KINGDOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA INFECTIONS; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENETIC MARKERS; HOSPITALS, SPECIAL; HUMAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SCOTLAND; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0029075157     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0795-661     Document Type: Article

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