Patient characteristics but not virulence factors discriminate between asymptomatic and symptomatic E. coli bacteriuria in the hospital

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Marschall, Jonas ^a,c   Piccirillo, Marilyn L ^a   Foxman, Betsy ^b   Zhang, Lixin ^b   Warren, David K ^a   Henderson, Jeffrey P ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Asymptomatic; Bacteriuria; Escherichia coli; Urinary tract infection; Virulence factors

Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC BACTERIURIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIURIA; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED BACTERIURIA; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEMENTIA; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PREDICTION; PYURIA; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTIONS; BACTERIURIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84877302428     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-213     Document Type: Article

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