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SUBMITTER: Nascimento JAS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8874565 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nascimento Júllia A S JAS Santos Fernanda F FF Santos-Neto José F JF Trovão Liana O LO Valiatti Tiago B TB Pinaffi Isabel C IC Vieira Mônica A M MAM Silva Rosa M RM Falsetti Ivan N IN Santos Ana C M ACM Gomes Tânia A T TAT
Microorganisms 20220127 2
Urinary tract infections (UTI) affect community and healthcare patients worldwide and may have different clinical outcomes. We assessed the phylogenetic origin, the presence of 43 virulence factors (VFs) of diarrheagenic and extraintestinal pathogenic <i>Escherichia coli</i>, and the occurrence of hybrid strains among <i>E. coli</i> isolates from 172 outpatients with different types of UTI. Isolates from phylogroup B2 (46%) prevailed, followed by phylogroups A (15.7%) and B1 (12.2%), with simila ...[more]