Article
Emergence of enteroaggregative <i>Escherichia coli</i> within the ST131 lineage as a cause of extraintestinal infections
2018-10-05
Abstract excerpt
Escherichia coli sequence type 131 (ST131) is a major cause of urinary and bloodstream infections and its association with extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBL) significantly complicates treatment. Most notorious is its rapidly expanding H 30-Rx clade (named for containing allele 30 of the type-1 fimbrial adhesin gene fimH and extensive antimicrobial resistance), which appears to have emerged in the United State...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 383640a1-cfdb-5b79-8695-7ffa2da9a73d
- DOI
- 10.1101/435941
