Identical Burkholderia cepacia complex strain types isolated from multiple patients attending a hospital in Brazil [2]

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 247-249

  Assaad, Wail ^a   Magalhães, Marcelo ^b   Plesa, Maria ^c   Hart, C Anthony ^a   Cornelis, Pierre ^c   Winstanley, Craig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCULIN; GELATIN; LYSINE DECARBOXYLASE; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; RIBITOL; SUCROSE;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRAZIL; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA COMPLEX; EPIDEMIC; GENE SEQUENCE; HEMOLYSIS; HOSPITAL PATIENT; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BRAZIL; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA COMPLEX; BURKHOLDERIA INFECTIONS; CHILD; GENES, BACTERIAL; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REC A RECOMBINASES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 32044468105     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46321-0     Document Type: Letter

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