Prevalence of indeterminate genetic species of Burkholderia cepacia complex in a cystic fibrosis center in Argentina

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1151-1152

  Jordá Vargas, Liliana ^a   Castañeda, Nancy C ^a   Centrón, Daniela ^a   Degrossi, José ^a   D'Aquino, Miguel ^a   Valvano, Miguel A ^b   Procopio, Adriana ^c   Galanternik, Laura ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c HOSPITAL DE NIÑOS RICARDO GUTIÉRREZ   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECA GENE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ARGENTINA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA COMPLEX; BURKHOLDERIA INFECTIONS; CULTURE MEDIA; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PREVALENCE; SPUTUM;

BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA COMPLEX;

EID: 40749151516     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01595-07     Document Type: Letter

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