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Enterococcus faecalisClones in Poultry and in Humans with Urinary Tract Infections, Vietnam
8 Jun 2012
Abstract excerpt
Enterococcus spp. as pathogens have increased, but the sources of infection often remain unclear. To investigate whether poultry might be a reservoir for E. faecalis-associated urinary tract infections (UTIs) in humans, we characterized E. faecalis isolates from patients in Vietnam with UTIs during January 2008-January 2010 and poultry living in close contact with them by multilocus sequence typing (MLST),...
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