Escherichia coli is a commensal of the vertebrate gut that is increasingly involved in various
intestinal and extra-intestinal infections as an opportunistic pathogen. Numerous pathotypes …

Multidrug resistance in Escherichia coli has become a worrying issue that is increasingly
observed in human but also in veterinary medicine worldwide. E. coli is intrinsically …

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 …

In the past years infections caused by multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria have
dramatically increased in all parts of the world. This consensus paper is based on …

In the last 10 years, extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing enterobacteria (ESBL-E)
have become one of the main challenges for antibiotic treatment of enterobacterial …

Multilocus sequence ty** reveals that many bacterial species have a clonal structure and
that some clones are widespread. This underlying phylogeny was not revealed by pulsed …

The possible zoonotic spread of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria is controversial. This review
discusses global molecular epidemiological data combining both analyses of the …

Antimicrobials are important tools for the therapy of infectious bacterial diseases in
companion animals. Loss of efficacy of antimicrobial substances can seriously compromise …

Escherichia coli sequence type 131 (ST131) is a worldwide pandemic clone, causing
predominantly community-onset antimicrobial-resistant infection. Its pandemic spread was …

Pathogenic Escherichia coli strains cause a wide variety of intestinal and extraintestinal
infections. The widespread geographical clonal dissemination of intestinal pathogenic E …