Abstract
Multiple Escherichia coli isolates from four adults with extraintestinal infections underwent molecular phylotyping and virulence profiling. A patient with secondary peritonitis had two low-virulence E. coli strains from phylogenetic groups A and D. In contrast, three patients with invasive extraurinary infections (septic arthritis/pyomyositis, nontraumatic meningitis/hematogenous osteomyelitis, and pneumonia) each had a single high-virulence phylogenetic group B2 strain resembling typical isolates causing urinary infection and/or sepsis, i.e., extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 5798-5802 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Journal of clinical microbiology |
Volume | 41 |
Issue number | 12 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 2003 |