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Chronic airway infection with bacteria—particularly Gram-negative organisms such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa—predicts outcome in patients with cystic fibrosis. In this issue of Thorax we publish three papers about other Gram-negative bacteria that are found in the airways of these patients, together with an editorial by Elborn which discusses the clinical implication of these papers. The first paper by Jones and colleagues describes the outcome of infection with two genomovars of Burkholderia (multivorans and cenocepacia): patients with B multivorans had a similar mortality to those infected with P aeruginosa but a lower mortality than those with B cenocepacia infection. In the second paper Coenye and co-workers describe the transatlantic spread of a new B cenocepacia strain called PHDC previously identified in North America that has been found for the first time in a number of European countries. These two papers emphasise the importance of microbiological surveillance and careful infection
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