Jazz and Christian - here is what I found - hope it helps.
Interesting site: CDC?s site on on b. cepacia http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol4no2/holmes.htm
This is where I got the 50% figure. http://bccm.belspo.be/newsletter/9-01/bccm02.htm "Infection or colonisation by B. cepacia leads to different outcomes in different patients. However, overall, pulmonary colonisation reduces survival by 50% and about one third to a half of the patients succumb to "cepacia syndrome", a rapidly fatal necrotising pneumonia."
Another mortality statistic: http://www.junkscience.com/news2/goodbugs.htm ?Goldstein says that B. cepacia is resistant to most antibiotics and kills around a third of cystic fibrosis patients it infects within a year?
http://www.cysticfibrosismedicine.com/htmldocs/CFText/bcepacia.htm
Median survival rates decline markedly to approximately 15-19 years with a history of B. cepacia complex infection. Once patients acquire an infection with B. cepacia complex bacteria, clinical progression of the disease follows one of three commonly observed patterns, namely (i). no change in lung function and clinical status, (ii). acceleration of decline in pulmonary function and (iii). fatal decline over a relatively short periods. This is sometimes accompanied by septicaemia, which is often referred to as the "cepacia syndrome".
How we get it and how long it lives: http://health.state.ga.us/healthtopics/mme/040504.asp. ?It is thought that the organism can survive on surfaces for up to a week and in water for many months. Transmission occurred either by direct contact with fluids such as saliva and sputum, by shaking hands, or even indirectly from contaminated surfaces (such as sinks, exercise equipment, and tissues).?
Interesting site: CDC?s site on on b. cepacia http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol4no2/holmes.htm
This is where I got the 50% figure. http://bccm.belspo.be/newsletter/9-01/bccm02.htm "Infection or colonisation by B. cepacia leads to different outcomes in different patients. However, overall, pulmonary colonisation reduces survival by 50% and about one third to a half of the patients succumb to "cepacia syndrome", a rapidly fatal necrotising pneumonia."
Another mortality statistic: http://www.junkscience.com/news2/goodbugs.htm ?Goldstein says that B. cepacia is resistant to most antibiotics and kills around a third of cystic fibrosis patients it infects within a year?
http://www.cysticfibrosismedicine.com/htmldocs/CFText/bcepacia.htm
Median survival rates decline markedly to approximately 15-19 years with a history of B. cepacia complex infection. Once patients acquire an infection with B. cepacia complex bacteria, clinical progression of the disease follows one of three commonly observed patterns, namely (i). no change in lung function and clinical status, (ii). acceleration of decline in pulmonary function and (iii). fatal decline over a relatively short periods. This is sometimes accompanied by septicaemia, which is often referred to as the "cepacia syndrome".
How we get it and how long it lives: http://health.state.ga.us/healthtopics/mme/040504.asp. ?It is thought that the organism can survive on surfaces for up to a week and in water for many months. Transmission occurred either by direct contact with fluids such as saliva and sputum, by shaking hands, or even indirectly from contaminated surfaces (such as sinks, exercise equipment, and tissues).?