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Alternative Title:
Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:
Manges, Amee R. ; Tabor, Helen ; Tellis, Patricia ; Vincent, Caroline ; Tellier, Pierre-Paul
Manges, Amee R. ; Tabor, Helen ; Tellis, Patricia ; Vincent, Caroline ; Tellier, Pierre-Paul Less -
Description:
Women with urinary tract infections (UTIs) in California, USA (1999-2001), were infected with closely related or indistinguishable strains of Escherichia coli (clonal groups), which suggests point source dissemination. We compared strains of UTI-causing E. coli in California with strains causing such infections in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Urine specimens from women with community-acquired UTIs in Montréal (2006) were cultured for E. coli. Isolates that caused 256 consecutive episodes of UTI were characterized by antimicrobial drug susceptibility profile, enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus 2 PCR, serotyping, XbaI and NotI pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, multilocus sequence typing, and phylogenetic typing. We confirmed the presence of drug-resistant, genetically related, and temporally clustered E. coli clonal groups that caused community-acquired UTIs in unrelated women in 2 locations and 2 different times. Two clonal groups were identified in both locations. Epidemic transmission followed by endemic transmission of UTI-causing clonal groups may explain these clusters of UTI cases.
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Adolescent
Adult
Antimicrobial Drug Resistance
Bacterial Typing Techniques
California
Cluster Analysis
Community-Acquired Infections
Cross-Sectional Studies
Disease Outbreaks
DNA Fingerprinting
Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial
Escherichia Coli
Escherichia Coli Infections
Extraintestinal Infections
Female
Humans
Middle Aged
Molecular Epidemiology
Phylogeny
Quebec
Research
Serotyping
Urinary Tract Infections
Urinary Tract Infections

Source:
Emerg Infect Dis. 14(10):1575-1583
Pubmed ID:
18826822
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC2609861
Document Type:
Journal Article
Collection(s):
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Main Document Checksum:
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