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Molecular characterisation of uropathogenic Escherichia coli isolates at a tertiary care hospital in South India.
Indian journal of medical microbiology - 1 Jan 2000
Chakraborty Arindam, Adhikari Prabha, Shenoy Shalini, Saralaya Vishwas
Abstract excerpt
Uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) express a multitude of virulence factors (VFs) to break the inertia of the mucosal barrier of the urinary tract. The aim of the present study was undertaken to characterised the UPEC strains and to correlate carriage of specific virulence markers with different phylogroups and also to correlate these findings with clinical outcome of patients. A total of 156 non-repeated,...
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