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By electron microscopy, we found that the mean cross sectional diameters and lengths of B. cepacia 25416 cells were 0.755 μm × 2.55 μm.
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.
Incubation of 125I-GGPG with intact P. aeruginosa 9027 (PG-1 sensitive) and B. cepacia 25416 (PG-1 resistant) cells demonstrated a marked difference in protegrin binding between the two strains (Fig.
Binding assays were done with stationary phase P. aeruginosa 9027 or B. cepacia 25416, both typically at 2.5 × 10 7CFU/ml.
Given the notorious resistance of B. cepacia to conventional antibiotics [ 2 ] , its relative resistance to PG-1 was not unexpected.