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Use of Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis in Infection Control Issues Concerning Burkholderia cepacia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Adam Jenney ,
Lisa Liolios ,
Denis Spelman ,
Philip Russo ,
John Wilson ,
Steven Wesselingh  and
Tom Kotsimbos
Adam Jenney*
Affiliation:
Microbiology Department, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Lisa Liolios
Affiliation:
Infectious Diseases Unit, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Denis Spelman
Affiliation:
Microbiology Department, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Infectious Diseases Unit, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Philip Russo
Affiliation:
Infectious Diseases Unit, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
John Wilson
Affiliation:
Respiratory Unit, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Steven Wesselingh
Affiliation:
Infectious Diseases Unit, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Tom Kotsimbos
Affiliation:
Respiratory Unit, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
*
Microbiology Department, The Alfred Hospital, Commercial Road, Prahran, Victoria 3181, Australia
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Abstract

There was concern that nosocomial person-to-person transmission of Burkholderia cepacia had occurred when two patients with cystic fibrosis shared a bathroom. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis demonstrated that the two isolates were unrelated. Subsequent testing of 34 stored isolates of B. cepacia demonstrated that no particular clone predominated in our hospital.

Type
Concise Communications
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 24 , Issue 8 , August 2003 , pp. 624 - 626
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2003

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