Classification and identification of the Burkholderia cepacia complex: Past, present and future

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 87-95

  Vandamme, Peter ^a   Dawyndt, Peter ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Burkholderia cepacia complex; Identification; Multilocus sequence analysis; RecA; Taxonomy; Whole genome studies

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA AMBIFARIA; BURKHOLDERIA ANTHINA; BURKHOLDERIA ARBORIS; BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA COMPLEX; BURKHOLDERIA CONTAMINANS; BURKHOLDERIA DIFFUSA; BURKHOLDERIA DOLOSA; BURKHOLDERIA GLUMAE; BURKHOLDERIA GRAMINIS; BURKHOLDERIA LATA; BURKHOLDERIA LATENS; BURKHOLDERIA MALLEI; BURKHOLDERIA METALLICA; BURKHOLDERIA MULTIVORANS; BURKHOLDERIA OKLAHOMENSIS; BURKHOLDERIA PHYMATUM; BURKHOLDERIA PHYTOFIRMANS; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; BURKHOLDERIA PYRROCINIA; BURKHOLDERIA SEMINALIS; BURKHOLDERIA STABILIS; BURKHOLDERIA THAILANDENSIS; BURKHOLDERIA UBONENSIS; BURKHOLDERIA VIETNAMIENSIS; BURKHOLDERIA XENOVORANS; CUPRIAVIDUS METALLIDURANS; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; FATTY ACID ANALYSIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; HUMAN; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS; RECA GENE; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; WHOLE CELL FATTY ACID ANALYSIS; WHOLE CELL PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA COMPLEX; BURKHOLDERIA INFECTIONS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; FATTY ACIDS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PHYLOGENY; REC A RECOMBINASES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA COMPLEX;

EID: 79952533350     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: 16180984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2010.10.002     Document Type: Article

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