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Population structure and uropathogenic virulence-associated genes of faecal Escherichia coli from healthy young and elderly adults.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 May 2011
Vollmerhausen Tara L, Ramos Nubia L, Gündoğdu Aycan, Robinson Wayne, Brauner Annelie, Katouli Mohammad
Abstract excerpt
We investigated the population structures of faecal Escherichia coli in 30 healthy young adults (13 males and 17 females) aged between 20 and 45 years and 29 elderly adults (14 females and 15 males) aged between 65 and 77 years. In all, 1566 strains were typed with the PhPlate system and grouped into biochemical phenotypes (BPTs). Strains with shared BPTs were further typed using randomly amplified polymorphic...
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