Widespread distribution of urinary tract infections caused by a multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli clonal group

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 345, Issue 14, 2001, Pages 1007-1013

  Manges, Amee R ^a   Johnson, James R ^b   Foxman, Betsy ^c   O'Bryan, Timothy T ^b   Fullerton, Kathleen E ^a   Riley, Lee W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPING; UNITED STATES; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, URINARY; CALIFORNIA; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; PREVALENCE; SEROTYPING; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0035807584     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa011265     Document Type: Article

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