Intercontinental emergence of Escherichia coli clone O25:H4-ST131 producing CTX-M-15

Nicolas‐Chanoine, M.‐H.; Blanco, Jorge; Leflon‐Guibout, Véronique; Demarty, R.; Pilar Alonso, Marı́a; Caniça, Manuela; Park, Y.-J.; Lavigne, Jean‐Philippe; Pitout, Johann; R. Johnson, James

doi:10.1093/jac/dkm464

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Intercontinental emergence of Escherichia coli clone O25:H4-ST131 producing CTX-M-15

Published in Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy • Dec 13, 2007

Authors:

M.‐H. Nicolas‐Chanoine

Jorge Blanco

Véronique Leflon‐Guibout

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Concomitant with the recent emergence of CTX-M-type extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs), Escherichia coli has become the enterobacterial species most affected by ESBLs. Multiple locales are encountering CTX-M-positive E. coli, including specifically CTX-M-15. To gain insights into ...

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Multilocus sequence typing

Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis

Virulence

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