Relationship between Escherichia coli strains causing urinary tract infection in women and the dominant faecal flora of the same hosts

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 134, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1015-1023

  Moreno, E ^a   Andreu, A ^a   Perez T ^a   Sabate M ^a   Johnson, J R ^b   Prats, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOTYPE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES MICROFLORA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; PATHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BACTERIURIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 33748373201     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268806005917     Document Type: Article

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