Origin and Evolution of Hybrid Shiga Toxin-Producing and Uropathogenic Escherichia coli Strains of Sequence Type 141-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Origin and Evolution of Hybrid Shiga Toxin-Producing and Uropathogenic Escherichia coli Strains of Sequence Type 141

Published:2019-12-23 Issue:1 Volume:58 Page:
ISSN:0095-1137
Container-title:Journal of Clinical Microbiology
language:en
Short-container-title:J Clin Microbiol

Author:

Gati Noble Selasi¹,Middendorf-Bauchart Barbara¹,Bletz Stefan¹,Dobrindt Ulrich²^ORCID,Mellmann Alexander¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. University Hospital Münster, Institute of Hygiene, National Consulting Laboratory for Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS), Münster, Germany

2. University Hospital Münster, Institute of Hygiene, Microbial Genome-Plasticity, Münster, Germany

Abstract

Hybrid Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) and uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) strains of multilocus sequence type 141 (ST141) cause both urinary tract infections and diarrhea in humans and are phylogenetically positioned between STEC and UPEC strains.

Funder

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Microbiology (medical)

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/JCM.01309-19

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