| Abstract: | Infection with Burkholderia cepacia due to socialcontact is well described in patients with cystic fibrosis. However,social transmission to non-cystic fibrosis individuals or chroniccolonisation in non-cystic fibrosis individuals has not been described.A report of B cepacia bronchiectasis is presented where apreviously healthy mother of two cystic fibrosis children colonisedwith B cepacia became infected by the same epidemicstrain. The implications of this for parents, siblings, and partners ofindividuals with cystic fibrosis are discussed.
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