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Escherichia coli diversity in the lower intestinal tract of humans.
Environmental microbiology reports - 1 Aug 2015
Gordon David M, O'Brien Claire L, Pavli Paul
Abstract excerpt
Previous studies examining the clonal diversity of Escherichia coli populations within humans have been based on faecal isolates. In this study E. coli were isolated from biopsies taken from the terminal ileum, ascending, transverse and descending colon, and rectum of 69 individuals. Multiple isolates from each biopsy were characterized using Rep-PCR. An average of 3.5 genotypes were recovered per host, and in...
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