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Pablo Martina1, Marisa Bettiol, Cecilia Vescina, Patricia Montanaro, M Constanza Mannino, Claudia I Prieto, Carlos Vay, Dieter Naumann, Juergen Schmitt, Osvaldo Yantorno, Antonio Lagares, Alejandra Bosch.
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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 BOX-PCR genotyping in analyzing B. contaminans diversity. This approach allowed us to address clonal transmission during an outbreak and the genetic changes occurring in infecting bacteria over the course of chronic infection.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 23135937 PMCID: PMC3536218 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02500-12
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948