UK epidemic Escherichia coli strains A-E, with CTX-M-15 β-lactamase, all belong to the international O25:H4-ST131 clone

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1241-1244

  Lau, Siu Ha ^a,b   Kaufmann, Mary E ^b   Livermore, David M ^b   Woodford, Neil ^b   Willshaw, Geraldine A ^b   Cheasty, Tom ^b   Stamper, Katie ^c   Reddy, Suganya ^d   Cheesbrough, John ^d   Bolton, Frederick J ^b   Fox, Andrew J ^b   Upton, Mathew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c STEPPING HILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL PRESTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extended spectrum lactamases; MLST; Molecular epidemiology; Multilocus sequence typing; PFGE; UPEC; Uropathogenic Escherichia coli

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE CTX M 15; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ENTEROINVASIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; UNITED KINGDOM; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BETA-LACTAMASES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GENOTYPE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING;

EID: 56649108214     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkn380     Document Type: Article

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