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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.
Genomovars II and V have also been recovered from CF patients [ 18 ] . Of critical concern are B. cepacia 's transmissibility from one patient to another and its propensity to give rise to the B. cepacia syndrome, which results in a rapid decline in pulmonary function [ 2 18 ] . The ability of B. cepacia as well as P. aeruginosa to cause chronic bronchopulmonary infections in CF patients is exacerbated by their intrinsic or acquired resistance to many conventional antibiotics.