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Uropathogenic Escherichia coli as agents of diverse non-urinary tract extraintestinal infections.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 15 Sept 2002
Johnson James R, Russo Thomas A
Abstract excerpt
Escherichia coli isolates from 3 consecutively encountered patients with serious, invasive, non-urinary tract extraintestinal infections (pneumonia, deep surgical wound infection, and vertebral osteomyelitis with associated epidural/psoas/iliacus abscesses) were characterized, using molecular methods, as to extended virulence genotype and phylogenetic background. All 3 isolates exhibited virulence genotypes and...
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