Global extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) lineages

AR Manges, HM Geum, A Guo, TJ Edens… - Clinical microbiology …, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
SUMMARY Extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) strains are responsible for a
majority of human extraintestinal infections globally, resulting in enormous direct medical …

Escherichia coli ST131, an intriguing clonal group

MH Nicolas-Chanoine, X Bertrand… - Clinical microbiology …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
In 2008, a previously unknown Escherichia coli clonal group, sequence type 131 (ST131),
was identified on three continents. Today, ST131 is the predominant E. coli lineage among …

Global dissemination of a multidrug resistant Escherichia coli clone

NK Petty, NL Ben Zakour… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Escherichia coli sequence type 131 (ST131) is a globally disseminated, multidrug resistant
(MDR) clone responsible for a high proportion of urinary tract and bloodstream infections …

Metagenomic assembly reveals hosts of antibiotic resistance genes and the shared resistome in pig, chicken, and human feces

L Ma, Y **a, B Li, Y Yang, LG Li… - … science & technology, 2016 - ACS Publications
The risk associated with antibiotic resistance disseminating from animal and human feces is
an urgent public issue. In the present study, we sought to establish a pipeline for annotating …

Selective depletion of uropathogenic E. coli from the gut by a FimH antagonist

CN Spaulding, RD Klein, S Ruer, AL Kau, HL Schreiber… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) caused by uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) affect 150
million people annually,. Despite effective antibiotic therapy, 30–50% of patients experience …

Host–pathogen checkpoints and population bottlenecks in persistent and intracellular uropathogenic Escherichia coli bladder infection

TJ Hannan, M Totsika, KJ Mansfield… - FEMS microbiology …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Bladder infections affect millions of people yearly, and recurrent symptomatic infections
(cystitis) are very common. The rapid increase in infections caused by multidrug-resistant …

Systematic longitudinal survey of invasive Escherichia coli in England demonstrates a stable population structure only transiently disturbed by the emergence of …

T Kallonen, HJ Brodrick, SR Harris, J Corander… - Genome …, 2017 - genome.cshlp.org
Escherichia coli associated with urinary tract infections and bacteremia has been intensively
investigated, including recent work focusing on the virulent, globally disseminated, multidrug …

Drug and vaccine development for the treatment and prevention of urinary tract infections

VP O'brien, TJ Hannan, HV Nielsen… - Urinary Tract Infections …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Urinary tract infections (UTI) are one of the most common bacterial infections, with roughly
eleven‐million cases reported in the US each year that cost an estimated $5 billion annually …

Sequential acquisition of virulence and fluoroquinolone resistance has shaped the evolution of Escherichia coli ST131

NL Ben Zakour, AS Alsheikh-Hussain, MM Ashcroft… - MBio, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Escherichia coli ST131 is the most frequently isolated fluoroquinolone-resistant (FQR) E. coli
clone worldwide and a major cause of urinary tract and bloodstream infections. Although …

Fourteen years in resistance

DM Livermore - International journal of antimicrobial agents, 2012 - Elsevier
Resistance trends have changed greatly over the 14 years (1997–2011) whilst I was
Director of the UK Antibiotic Resistance Monitoring and Reference Laboratory (ARMRL) …