Volume 4, Number 2—June 1998
Synopsis
Agricultural Use of Burkholderia (Pseudomonas) cepacia: A Threat to Human Health?
Figure 1
![B. cepacia causes an onion rot known as slippery skin (1). The onions shown were inoculated with three strains of B. cepacia. Rot occurred in onion1 (left), which was inoculated with strain originally isolated from onions. Rot did not occur with environmental isolates tested or with strains from CF lung.](/eid/images/98-0209-F1.jpg)
Figure 1. B. cepacia causes an onion rot known as slippery skin (1). The onions shown were inoculated with three strains of B. cepacia. Rot occurred in onion1 (left), which was inoculated with strain originally isolated from onions. Rot did not occur with environmental isolates tested or with strains from CF lung.
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