Chronic infection of cystic fibrosis patient airways by a single clone of Burkholderia cepacia: Replacement of non-mucoid to mucoid morphotype

Brazilian Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2003, Pages 42-44

  D'Alincourt Carvalho, Ana Paula ^a,c   De Carvalho Ventura, Grasiella Maria ^a   Folescu, Tânia Wrobel ^b   Farme D'Amoed, Renato ^b   Higa, Laurinda ^b   Teixeira, Lucia Martins ^c   Carreira Merquior, Vânia Lúcia ^a   De Andrade Marques, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Burkholderia cepacia complex; Cystic fibrosis; PFGE; RAPD PCR

Indexed keywords

BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA;

EID: 19944422829     PISSN: 15178382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s1517-83822003000500014     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Cérantola, S.; Bounéry, J.D.; Segonds, C.; Marty, N.; Montrozier, H. Exopolysaccharide production by mucoid and non-mucoid strains of Burkholderia cepacia. FEMS Microbiol. Lett., 185:243-246, 2000.
2. Gilligan, P.H. Microbiology of airway disease in patients with cystic fibrosis. Clin. Microbiol. Rev., 4:35-51, 1991.
3. Henry, D.A.; Mahenthiralingam, E.; Vandamme, P.; Coenye, T.; Speert, D.P. Phenotypic methods for determining genomovar status of the Burkholderia cepacia complex. J. Clin. Microbiol., 39:1073-1078, 2001.
4. Larsen, G.Y.; Stull, T.L.; Burns, J.L. Marked phenotypic variability in Pseudomonas cepacia isolated from a patient with cystic fibrosis. J. Clin. Microbiol., 31:788-792, 1993.
5. Mc Manus, T.E.; Moore, J.E.; Crowe, M.; Dunbar, K.; Elborn, J.S. A comparison of pulmonary exacerbations with single and multiple organisms in patients with cystic fibrosis and chronic Burkholderia cepacia infection. Infection, 46:56-59, 2003.
6. Pacheco, A.B.F.; Guth, B.E.C.; Soares, K.C.C.; Nishimura, L.; Almeida, D.F.; Ferreira, L.C.S. Random amplification of polymorphic DNA reveals serotype-specific clonal clusters among enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli strains isolated from humans. J. Clin. Microbiol., 35:1521-1525, 1997.
7. Tenover, F.C.; Arbet, R.D.; Goering, R.V.; Mickelsen, P.A.; Murray, B.E.; Persing, D.H.; Swaminathan, B. Interpreting chromossomal DNA restriction patterns produced by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis: criteria for bacterial strain typing. J. Clin. Microbiol., 33:2233-239, 1995.
8. Valcin, M.; Moissenet, D.; Sardet, A.; Tournier, G.; Garbac-Chenon, A.; Vu-Thien, H. Pseudomonas (Burkholderia) cepacia in children with cystic fibrosis: Epidemiological investigation by analysis of restriction fragment length polymorphism. Pathol. Biol. (Paris), 44:442-446, 1996.