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Pathoadaptive Mutations in Uropathogenic Escherichia coli.
Microbiology spectrum - 1 Apr 2016
Sokurenko Evgeni
Abstract excerpt
Uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) are opportunistic human pathogens that primarily circulate as part of commensal intestinal microbiota. Though they have the ability to survive and proliferate in various urinary tract compartments, the urinary tract is a transient, occasional habitat for UPEC. Because of this, most of the UPEC traits have originally evolved to serve in intestinal colonization and...
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