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Long-term Escherichia coli asymptomatic bacteriuria among women with diabetes mellitus.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 15 Aug 2009
Dalal Shona, Nicolle Lindsay, Marrs Carl F, Zhang Lixin, Harding Godfrey, Foxman Betsy
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BACKGROUND: Persistent Escherichia coli asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) is common among persons with diabetes mellitus, but the duration of colonization and the rates of recolonization are unknown. We estimated the duration of colonization and the rate of recolonization among successively isolated E. coli from diabetic women with ASB and compared the virulence profiles with uropathogenic and commensal E. coli....
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