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Faecal Escherichia coli from patients with E. coli urinary tract infection and healthy controls who have never had a urinary tract infection.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Apr 2014
Nielsen Karen L, Dynesen Pia, Larsen Preben, Frimodt-Møller Niels
Abstract excerpt
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are primarily caused by Escherichia coli with the patient's own faecal flora acting as a reservoir for the infecting E. coli. Here we sought to characterize the E. coli faecal flora of UTI patients and healthy controls who had never had a UTI. Up to 20 E. coli colonies from each rectal swab were random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) typed for clonality, dominance in the sample...
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