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Prevalence of O25b-ST131 clone among Escherichia coli strains producing CTX-M-15, CTX-M-14 and CTX-M-92 β-lactamases.
Infectious diseases (London, England) - 1 Feb 2017
Giedraitienė Agnė, Vitkauskienė Astra, Pavilonis Alvydas, Patamsytė Vaiva, Genel Nathalie, Decre Dominique, Arlet Guillaume
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BACKGROUND: Dissemination of multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli is closely associated with the worldwide spread of a single clone ST131, which is the main cause of urinary tract and bloodstream infections in patients from nursing homes and immunocompromised patients. The aim of our study was to determine the prevalence of ST131 clone and the replicons involved in the spread of blaCTX-M genes among O25b-ST131...
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