Increase in bacteraemia cases in the East Midlands region of the UK due to MDR Escherichia coli ST73: High levels of genomic and plasmid diversity in causative isolates

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 339-343

  Alhashash, Fahad ^a   Wang, Xiaohui ^b   Paszkiewicz, Konrad ^c   Diggle, Mathew ^d   Zong, Zhiyong ^b   McNally, Alan ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; ANALYSIS; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BACTEREMIA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MOLECULAR TYPING; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84959901158     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkv365     Document Type: Article

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