Transmissibility of Pseudomonas cepacia Infection in Clinic Patients and Lung-Transplant Recipients with Cystic Fibrosis

Abstract

Our serial analyses in patients with cystic fibrosis at one center found distinct strains of P. cepacia persistently infecting each patient and no evidence of person-to-person transmission of this organism. P. cepacia infection after lung transplantation was due to the persistence of the strain present before transplantation.