| investigation of burkholderia cepacia nosocomial outbreak with high fatality in patients suffering from diseases other than cystic fibrosis. | over a 1-y period, 26 inpatients at the jordan university hospital in amman were detected with bacteraemia (23 cases) or respiratory tract colonized with b. cepacia (3 cases). a combination of genetic identification and molecular typing has proved that all cases were caused by a single epidemic strain of b. cepacia genomovar iiia. nosocomial infections could be documented in 21/26 (81%) patients, mostly with severe underlying or malignant diseases other than cystic fibrosis, but the source of in ... | 2004 | 15119360 |