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Evaluation of antibacterial efficacy of drugs for urinary tract infections by genotyping based on pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE).
Journal of infection and chemotherapy : official journal of the Japan Society of Chemotherapy - 1 Dec 2002
Osawa Kayo, Nakajima Michiko, Kataoka Nobumasa, Arakawa Souichi, Kamidono Sadao
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We attempted to determine whether the same bacterium isolated from patients with urinary tract infections (UTI) before and after treatment with antimicrobial agents was of the same strain ("persisted") or of a different strain ("changed"). Furthermore, to verify the effectiveness of antimicrobial agents for UTI, we investigated whether bacterial strains could be classified as persisted or changed based on their...
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