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Relationship between Escherichia coli strains causing acute cystitis in women and the fecal E. coli population of the host.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Aug 2008
Moreno Eva, Andreu Antonia, Pigrau Carles, Kuskowski Michael A, Johnson James R, Prats Guillem
Abstract excerpt
Previous epidemiological assessments of the prevalence versus special-pathogenicity hypothesis for urinary tract infection (UTI) pathogenesis in women may have been confounded by underlying host population differences between women with UTI and healthy controls and have not considered the clonal complexity of the fecal Escherichia coli population of the host. In the present study, 42 women with acute...
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