Genomic diversity and fitness of E. coli strains recovered from the intestinal and urinary tracts of women with recurrent urinary tract infection

Science Translational Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 184, 2013, Pages

  Chen, Swaine L ^a,b,d   Wu, Meng ^a   Henderson, Jeffrey P ^a   Hooton, Thomas M ^c   Hibbing, Michael E ^b   Hultgren, Scott J ^a,b   Gordon, Jeffrey I ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Dept Medicine Endocrinol Diabet   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; NITROFURANTOIN;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLADDER; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTESTINE; MALE; MOUSE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; URINARY TRACT; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84878289779     PISSN: 19466234     EISSN: 19466242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3005497     Document Type: Article

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