Recurrent infections and chronic colonization by an Escherichia coli clonein the respiratory tract of a patient with severe cystic bronchiectasis

Authors
Wang, JY Hsueh, PR Wang, JT Lee, LN Yang, PC Luh, KT
Citation
Jy. Wang et al., Recurrent infections and chronic colonization by an Escherichia coli clonein the respiratory tract of a patient with severe cystic bronchiectasis, J CLIN MICR, 38(7), 2000, pp. 2766-2767
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Clinical Immunolgy & Infectious Disease",Microbiology
Journal title
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
ISSN journal
00951137 → ACNP
Volume
38
Issue
7
Year of publication
2000
Pages
2766 - 2767
Database
ISI
SICI code
0095-1137(200007)38:7<2766:RIACCB>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
A 39-year-old woman with cystic bronchiectasis had repeated pulmonary infec tions front 1996 to 1999, and 6 of a total of 28 isolates of Escherichia co li from sputum specimens mere studied. Their identical antibiotype and rand omly amplified polymorphic DNA patterns indicated a single clone of E. coli , which persistently colonized the respiratory tract, causing recurrent inf ections.