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SUBMITTER: Parham NJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1153811 | biostudies-literature | 2005 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Parham Nick J NJ Pollard Samantha J SJ Chaudhuri Roy R RR Beatson Scott A SA Desvaux Mickaël M Russell Michael A MA Ruiz Joaquim J Fivian Amanda A Vila Jordi J Henderson Ian R IR
Journal of clinical microbiology 20050501 5
Uropathogenic Escherichia coli is the most common cause of urinary tract infection (UTI). Cystitis in women is by far the most common UTI; pyelonephritis in both sexes and prostatitis in men are more severe but are less frequent complaints. The ability of E. coli to cause UTI is associated with specific virulence determinants, some of which are encoded on pathogenicity islands (PAI). One such PAI (PAI IICFT073), of the prototypical uropathogenic E. coli strain CFT073, contains 116 open reading f ...[more]