Population Structure and Antimicrobial Resistance of Canine Uropathogenic Escherichia coli.

ABSTRACT: Escherichia coli is the most common cause of human and canine urinary tract infection (UTI). Clonal groups, often with high levels of antimicrobial resistance, are a major component of the E. coli population that causes human UTI. While little is known about the population structure of E. coli that causes UTI in dogs, there is evidence that dogs and humans can share fecal strains of E. coli and that human-associated strains can cause disease in dogs. In order to better characterize the E. coli strains that cause canine UTI, we analyzed 295 E. coli isolates obtained from canine urine samples from five veterinary diagnostic laboratories and analyzed their multilocus sequence types, phenotypic and genotypic antimicrobial resistance profiles, and virul

SUBMITTER: LeCuyer TE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6113483 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature