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Extraintestinal Pathogenic Escherichia coli as a Cause of Invasive Nonurinary Infections
1 Dec 2003
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Multiple Escherichia coli isolates from four adults with extraintestinal infections underwent molecular phylotyping and virulence profiling. A patient with secondary peritonitis had two low-virulence E. coli strains from phylogenetic groups A and D. In contrast, three patients with invasive extraurinary infections (septic arthritis/pyomyositis, nontraumatic meningitis/hematogenous osteomyelitis, and pneumonia)...
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