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Possible animal origin of human-associated, multidrug-resistant, uropathogenic Escherichia coli.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 15 Jan 2005
Ramchandani Meena, Manges Amee R, DebRoy Chitrita, Smith Sherry P, Johnson James R, Riley Lee W
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BACKGROUND: The multistate occurrence of cases of urinary tract infection (UTI) caused by trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMZ)-resistant Escherichia coli strains belonging to a single clonal group (designated as clonal group A [CgA]) in the United States has raised an intriguing hypothesis that these infections may have been spread by contaminated food products. The present study attempted to determine if CgA...
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