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Escherichia coli sequence type 131 as a prominent cause of antibiotic resistance among urinary Escherichia coli isolates from reproductive-age women.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Oct 2013
Kudinha Timothy, Johnson James R, Andrew Scott D, Kong Fanrong, Anderson Peter, Gilbert Gwendolyn L
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The recent emergence of multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli sequence type 131 (ST131) has coincided with an increase in general antibiotic resistance of E. coli, suggesting that ST131 has a contributing role in resistance. However, there is little information about the contribution of ST131 to different clinical syndromes or the basis for its impressive emergence and epidemic spread. To investigate this, we...
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