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Occurrence of Antibiotic-Resistant Uropathogenic <i>Escherichia coli</i> Clonal Group A in Wastewater Effluents
5 May 2007
Abstract excerpt
Isolates of Escherichia coli belonging to clonal group A (CGA), a recently described disseminated cause of drug-resistant urinary tract infections in humans, were present in four of seven sewage effluents collected from geographically dispersed areas of the United States. All 15 CGA isolates (1% of the 1,484 isolates analyzed) exhibited resistance to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMZ), accounting for 19.5%...
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