IntroductionBurkholderia cepacia, formerly Pseudomonas cepacia, is widely distributed in natural and man-made habitats, and has been isolated from soil, plant and water. [1][2][3][4][5][6] These bacteria exhibit an extraordinary metabolic versatility, allowing their adaptation to a wide range of environments and emerged in the 1980s as life-threatening and difficult-to-treat pathogens among patients suffering from cystic fibrosis. 2 It is a non-fermenting, m e d i c a l j o u r n a l a r m e d f o r c e s i n d i a 7 2 ( 2 0 1 6 ) s 5 0 -s 5 3 a r t