Background
Burkholderia cepacia is an aerobic gram-negative bacillus found in various aquatic environments. B cepacia is an organism of low virulence and is a frequent colonizer of fluids used in the hospital (eg, irrigation solutions, intravenous fluids). B cepacia rarely causes infection in healthy hosts. Based on phenotypic and genotypic analyses, B cepacia is divided into 9 genomovars that constitute the B cepacia complex (BCC).