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Prevalence of virulence genes and clonality in Escherichia coli strains that cause bacteremia in cancer patients.
Infection and immunity - 1 Jul 2000
Hilali F, Ruimy R, Saulnier P, Barnabé C, Lebouguénec C, Tibayrenc M, Andremont A
Abstract excerpt
Phenotypic analysis of Escherichia coli strains causing bacteremia in cancer patients suggests that they possess specific virulence properties. To investigate this hypothesis, we compared the frequency of the virulence-related genes cnf1, cnf2, papC, hlyC, and iut in 155 E. coli strains isolated from hospitalized cancer patients with epidemiologically unrelated cases of bacteremia to their frequency in 70 E. coli...
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