Molecular and epidemiological analysis of a Burkholderia cepacia sepsis outbreak from a tertiary care hospital in Bangladesh.

• Main Authors: Refath Farzana (Author), Lim S Jones (Author), Md Anisur Rahman (Author), Kirsty Sands (Author), Edward Portal (Author), Ian Boostrom (Author), Md Abul Kalam (Author), Brekhna Hasan (Author), Afifah Khan (Author), Timothy R Walsh (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc) is a group of serious pathogens in cystic fibrosis patients and causes life threatening infections in immunocompromised patients. Species within the Bcc are widely distributed within the environment, can survive in the presence of disinfectants and antis...