Article
Virulence factors and pap genotype in Escherichia coli isolates from women with acute pyelonephritis, with or without bacteremia.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 Sept 1993
Otto G, Sandberg T, Marklund B I, Ulleryd P, Svanborg C
Abstract excerpt
Bacteremia develops in a subgroup of patients with acute pyelonephritis. This study examined isolates of Escherichia coli from the urine and the blood of 25 bacteremic and 67 nonbacteremic women with this acute disease. P-fimbriated strains were found in 100% of bacteremic patients without compli...
Topics
- Acute Disease
- Adhesins, Escherichia coli
- Adult
- Age Factors
- Antigens, Bacterial
- Bacteremia
- Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins
- DNA, Bacterial
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Infections
- Female
- Genotype
- Humans
- Middle Aged
- Pyelonephritis
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
- Virulence