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Use of Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis in Infection Control Issues Concerning Burkholderia cepacia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2015
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There was concern that nosocomial person-to-person transmission of Burkholderia cepacia had occurred when two patients with cystic fibrosis shared a bathroom. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis demonstrated that the two isolates were unrelated. Subsequent testing of 34 stored isolates of B. cepacia demonstrated that no particular clone predominated in our hospital.
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