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SUBMITTER: Martina P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3536218 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of clinical microbiology 20121107 1
A total of 120 Burkholderia cepacia complex isolates collected during 2004-2010 from 66 patients in two cystic fibrosis reference centers in Argentina were analyzed. Burkholderia contaminans was the species most frequently recovered (57.6%), followed by Burkholderia cenocepacia (15%), a species distribution not reported so far. The recA-PCR-based techniques applied to the B. contaminans isolates revealed that 85% of the population carried the recA-ST-71 allele. Our results showed the utility of ...[more]