Words similar to cepacia
Example sentences for: cepacia
How can you use “cepacia” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
, Burkholderia cepacia , and some strains of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia are usually resistant to colistin [ 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 ] . Cross-resistance with other antibiotics has not been reported [ 10 13 ] , and acquired resistance is rare [ 11 17 ] . Although lower susceptibility rates for P. aeruginosa have been reported in patients with cystic fibrosis undergoing chronic prophylactic treatment with inhaled colistin [ 18 ] , 81% of strains of P. aeruginosa from such patients are still susceptible to colistin [ 14 ] .
Our studies demonstrate a correlation between protegrin sensitivity/resistance and protegrin binding in P. aeruginosa and B. cepacia , and support a hypothesis that the relative resistance of B. cepacia to protegrin is due principally to a reduced number of protegrin binding sites on the lipid A moiety of its LPS.
The mean C L of PG-1 for the six P. aeruginosa strains was 0.30 μg/ml, and the mean C L for the five B. cepacia strains was 5.02 μg/ml, a 16.
The C L and MAC values for P. aeruginosa and B. cepacia differed significantly (
The phagocytes of such patients are deficient in their capacity to kill organisms by oxidative means because of a defective NADPH oxidase [ 17 18 ] . B. cepacia also poses a threat to patients with CF, either cocolonizing those already infected with P. aeruginosa or as the sole infecting agent [ 2 18 ] . Although rates of colonization can vary widely (between 5 and 70%), B. cepacia is isolated from sputum in only 10%-20% of patients with CF [ 2 3 ] . B. cepacia , a very diverse species, has been divided into several "classes" of bacteria, i.e., genomovars, collectively referred to as the B. cepacia complex.
Loading...