Use of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis in infection control issues concerning Burkholderia cepacia.
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.
Jenney
Adam
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Microbiology Department, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Liolios
Lisa
L
Spelman
Denis
D
Russo
Philip
P
Wilson
John
J
Wesselingh
Steven
S
Kotsimbos
Tom
T
D019121:Burkholderia Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000635:transmission; D016956:Burkholderia cepacia / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission; D003550:Cystic Fibrosis / Q000150:complications; D016521:Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods*; D010356:Patient Isolation; D010641:Phenotype; D013183:Sputum / Q000382:microbiology; D014739:Victoria