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Prevalence of Escherichia coli sequence type 131 and its H30 subclone among E. coli isolates in a French hospital.
International journal of antimicrobial agents - 1 Nov 2014
Lafolie Jeremy, Nicolas-Chanoine Marie-Hélène, Grenouillet Frédéric, Hocquet Didier, Bertrand Xavier
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The prevalence of Escherichia coli sequence type 131 (ST131) and its subclone H30 was assessed among a collection of 490 E. coli isolated in 2013 in a French university hospital. The prevalence of ST131 was 4% among bloodstream isolates (regardless of antimicrobial resistance) and 17.2% among extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing isolates. Although a much lower prevalence of ST131 was found among...
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