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Month: April 1987
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Colonization of the respiratory tract with Pseudomonas cepacia in cystic fibrosis. Risk factors and outcomes
Abstract
Between 1981 and 1983, some 85 patients with cystic fibrosis at Rainbow Babies and Childrens Hospital, Cleveland, developed colonization or infection of the respiratory tract with Pseudomonas cepacia. Twenty-nine (34 percent) of the colonized patients died; four were female patients with fulminant bacteremia with P cepacia prior to death.… Read more