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SUBMITTER: Peeters C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4981952 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Peeters Charlotte C Daenekindt Stijn S Vandamme Peter P
BMC microbiology 20160812 1
<h4>Background</h4>Although semi-selective growth media have been developed for the isolation of Burkholderia cepacia complex bacteria from the environment, thus far Burkholderia multivorans has rarely been isolated from such samples. Because environmental B. multivorans isolates mainly originate from water samples, we hypothesized that water rather than soil is its most likely environmental niche. The aim of the present study was to assess the occurrence of B. multivorans in water samples from ...[more]