Article
Subtyping of uropathogenic Escherichia coli according to the pathogenicity island encoding uropathogenic‐specific protein: Comparison with phylogenetic groups
1 Jun 2006
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Phylogenetic analysis has been used widely to characterize extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli in molecular epidemiological studies. We have recently reported a putative pathogenicity island (PAI), carrying uropathogenic-specific protein (usp) and a unique mosaic structure of small open reading frames following usp, providing four subtypes of PAIusp classified from their sequential patterns....