usefulness of sau-pcr for molecular epidemiology of nosocomial outbreaks due to burkholderia cepacia which occurred in a local hospital in guangzhou, china. | the aim of the present study was to determine the source of nosocomial outbreak due to burkholderia cepacia by molecular techniques. a total of 11 b. cepacia strains were isolated; nine from blood and one from sputum of patients without cystic fibrosis, and one from reverse osmosis water at a local hospital in guangzhou, china. analyses of 11 strains by the sau-pcr assay and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis revealed that nine strains obtained from the blood of outpatients in a hemodialysis unit ... | 2008 | 18557899 |