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SUBMITTER: Domingos MO
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8876236 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Domingos Marta de Oliveira MO da Silva Junior Silvio Marciano SM Milanello Wagner W Nakano Shirley Sizue Nakamura SSN Franzolin Marcia Regina MR Dos Santos Luis Fernando LF Nunes Kamila Oliveira KO Marques Vaniky Duarte VD Elias Waldir P WP Silva Herbert Guimarães de Sousa HGS Caetano Bruna De Lucca BL Piazza Roxane Maria Fontes RMF
Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) 20220210 2
The role of uropathogenic <i>Escherichia coli</i> (UPEC) in colonization and infection of female patients with anatomical and functional abnormalities of the urinary system is elusive. In this study, the phenotype, genotype and the phylogeny of UPEC strains isolated from the urine of pediatric female patients with cystitis of normal and abnormal urinary tract were determined. Multiplex PCR results demonstrated that 86% of the strains isolated from female patients with normal urinary tract (NUT), ...[more]