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Genotyping of ESBL producing uropathogenic and diarrheagenic Escherichia coli in southeast of Iran.
Infectious disorders drug targets - 1 Jan 2015
Alizade Hesam, Fallah Fatemeh, Ghanbarpour Reza, Aflatoonian Mohammad R, Taherpour Arezou, Sharifi Hamid, Goudarzi Hossein
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BACKGROUND: The purpose of the present study was the distribution of blaOXA-1, blaPER-1 and blaVEB genes and the genotyping of these genes in extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBL) producing uropathogenic and diarrheagenic Escherichia coli isolates. METHODS: Of 432 isolates, 58 uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) and 56 diarrheagenic E. coli (DEC) isolates were shown to produce the ESBLs. The isolates were screened to...
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