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

J Med Microbiol. 2006 Feb;55(Pt 2):247-249. doi: 10.1099/jmm.0.46321-0.

Authors

Wail Assaad¹, Marcelo Magalhães², Maria Plesa³, C Anthony Hart¹, Pierre Cornelis³, Craig Winstanley¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Medical Microbiology and Genitourinary Medicine, University of Liverpool, Daulby Street, Liverpool L69 3GA, United Kingdom.
² Department of Tropical Medicine, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
³ Laboratory of Microbial Interactions, Department of Molecular and Cellular Interactions, Flanders Interuniversity Institute of Biotechnology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.

PMID: 16434721
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46321-0

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins / genetics
Bacterial Typing Techniques
Brazil
Burkholderia Infections / microbiology*
Burkholderia cepacia complex / classification*
Burkholderia cepacia complex / isolation & purification
Burkholderia cepacia complex / physiology
Child
Genes, Bacterial
Hospitals
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Peptidoglycan / genetics
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Rec A Recombinases / genetics
Species Specificity

Substances

Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins
Peptidoglycan
Rec A Recombinases