Renal abscess yields elusive hypermucoviscous phenotype of, uropathogenic Escherichia coli: a case report.

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Uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) strains are described as extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli with preference for the urinary tract. Bottone et al2 recently described the first documentation of a hypermucoviscous phenotype of a UPEC strain that displays a "stringing" phenomenon analogous to those produced by Klebsiella pneumonia strains known to invade the liver. The occurrence of this hypermucoviscous phenotype of...

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