Potential of metabolomics to reveal Burkholderia cepacia complex pathogenesis and antibiotic resistance

The Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc) is a collection of closely related, genetically distinct, ecologically diverse species known to cause life-threatening infections in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. By virtue of a flexible genomic structure and diverse metabolic activity, Bcc bacteria employ a w...

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Main Authors: Douglas Gordon Storey, Hans J. Vogel, Nusrat Sharmeen Shommu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00668/full