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Prevalence and persistence of Escherichia coli strains with uropathogenic virulence characteristics in sewage treatment plants.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Sept 2010
Anastasi E M, Matthews B, Gundogdu A, Vollmerhausen T L, Ramos N L, Stratton H, Ahmed W, Katouli M
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We investigated the prevalence and persistence of Escherichia coli strains in four sewage treatment plants (STPs) in a subtropical region of Queensland, Australia. In all, 264 E. coli strains were typed using a high-resolution biochemical fingerprinting method and grouped into either a single or a common biochemical phenotype (S-BPT and C-BPT, respectively). These strains were also tested for their phylogenetic...
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