Incidence of the cblA major subunit pilin gene amongst Burkholderia species
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Incidence of the cblA major subunit pilin gene amongst Burkholderia species.
PCR-amplification has been used to screen 75 isolates of the Burkholderia cepacia complex for the cblA pilin gene. PCR-amplified products of the correct size (664 bp) were cloned and sequenced and the sequences compared. Apart from in the control, epidemic cystic fibrosis (CF)-associated B. cepacia lineage we also identified, for the first time, cblA genes in a unique, non-CF clinical isolate f...
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عنوان ژورنال: FEMS Microbiology Letters
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0378-1097
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1097(01)00037-4