Recurrent infections and chronic colonization by an Escherichia coli clone in the respiratory tract of a patient with severe cystic bronchiectasis |
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| Authors: | Wang J Y Hsueh P R Wang J T Lee L N Yang P C Luh K T |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. |
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| Abstract: | A 39-year-old woman with cystic bronchiectasis had repeated pulmonary infections from 1996 to 1999, and 6 of a total of 28 isolates of Escherichia coli from sputum specimens were studied. Their identical antibiotype and randomly amplified polymorphic DNA patterns indicated a single clone of E. coli, which persistently colonized the respiratory tract, causing recurrent infections. |
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