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Multidrug-resistant E. coli encoding high genetic diversity in carbohydrate metabolism genes displace commensal E. coli from the intestinal tract.
PLoS biology - 1 Oct 2023
Connor Christopher H, Zucoloto Amanda Z, Munnoch John T, Yu Ian-Ling, Corander Jukka, Hoskisson Paul A, McDonald Braedon, McNally Alan
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Extra-intestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) can cause a variety of infections outside of the intestine and are a major causative agent of urinary tract infections. Treatment of these infections is increasingly frustrated by antimicrobial resistance (AMR) diminishing the number of effective therapies available to clinicians. Incidence of multidrug resistance (MDR) is not uniform across the phylogenetic...
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