Outcome for patients colonised with Burkholderia cepacia in a Birmingham adult cystic fibrosis clinic and the end of an epidemic.

Abstract

B cepacia appears to be linked to the decline in colonised individuals. There was no evidence that colonisation occurred in patients declining for other reasons. B cepacia colonisation confers a worse prognosis than Pseudomonas aeruginosa alone. Segregation appears to limit the spread of the organism from infected individuals to other patients with cystic fibrosis.