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Pandemic ST131<i>Escherichia coli</i>presenting the UPEC/EAEC and ExPEC/EAEC hybrid pathotypes recovered from extraintestinal infections in a clinical setting of the Brazilian Amazon region
2024-03-13
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Escherichia coli is part of the commensal microbiota of human’s and animal’s gut. However, they may become pathogenic due to the acquisition of virulence factors that provide the ability to cause intestinal or extraintestinal infections, which makes E. coli the main cause of diarrheagenic diseases and urinary tract infections (UTIs) worldwide, respectively. Some strains, known as hybrids, may harbour a mix of viru...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 623a3709-75d8-528a-9c59-b4de440b1d5f
- DOI
- 10.1101/2024.03.11.24304096
