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The clonal distribution and diversity of extraintestinal Escherichia coli isolates vary according to patient characteristics.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Dec 2013
Banerjee Ritu, Johnston Brian, Lohse Christine, Chattopadhyay Sujay, Tchesnokova Veronika, Sokurenko Evgeni V, Johnson James R
Abstract excerpt
The clonal distribution of Escherichia coli across an unselected population in the current era of widespread antimicrobial resistance is incompletely defined. In this study, we used a newly described clonal typing strategy based on sequencing of fumC and fimH (i.e., CH typing) to infer multilocus sequence types (STs) for 299 consecutive, nonduplicate extraintestinal E. coli isolates from all cultures submitted to...
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