Burkholderia cepacia complex infection in Italian patients with cystic fibrosis: Prevalence, epidemiology, and genomovar status

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 2891-2896

  Agodi, A ^a   Mahenthiralingam, E ^a   Barchitta, M ^a   Giannino V ^a   Sciacca, A ^a   Stefani, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN CBLA; RECA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; GENOME; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA INFECTIONS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; ITALY; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PREVALENCE; PROTEINS; PROTEOGLYCANS; REC A RECOMBINASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0034888923     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.8.2891-2896.2001     Document Type: Article

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