This organism can colonize airways during broad-spectrum antimicrobial treatment and is a cause of ventilator-associated pneumonia, catheter-associated infection, and wound infection.

• B. cepacia is recognized as an antibiotic-resistant nosocomial pathogen in ICU pts.
• B. cepacia can cause a rapidly fatal syndrome of respiratory distress and septicemia (the “cepacia syndrome”) in pts with cystic fibrosis.