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The trend of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli towards atypical multidrug resistant genotypes.
Journal of chemotherapy (Florence, Italy) - 1 Feb 2017
Mahmoudi-Aznaveh Azam, Bakhshi Bita, Najar-Peerayeh Shahin
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The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of multidrug resistance (MDR) in atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) genotypes among 547 diarrheal children. All E. coli isolates with eae+stx1-stx2- genotypes included in this study and atypical property of EPEC was characterized by the absence of Bundle-forming pili (bfpA gene). Bacterial pathogens were detected in 70 patients (12.8%) among...
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