The role of epidemic resistance plasmids and international high-risk clones in the spread of multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae

AJ Mathers, G Peirano, JDD Pitout - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Escherichia coli sequence type 131 (ST131) and Klebsiella pneumoniae ST258 emerged in
the 2000s as important human pathogens, have spread extensively throughout the world …

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 …

Extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli: an update on antimicrobial resistance, laboratory diagnosis and treatment

JDD Pitout - Expert review of anti-infective therapy, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Escherichia coli remains one of the most frequent causes of nosocomial and community-
acquired bacterial infections including urinary tract infections, enteric infections and systemic …

Emergence and Dissemination of Extraintestinal Pathogenic High-Risk International Clones of Escherichia coli

B Kocsis, D Gulyás, D Szabó - Life, 2022 - mdpi.com
Multiresistant Escherichia coli has been disseminated worldwide, and it is one of the major
causative agents of nosocomial infections. E. coli has a remarkable and complex genomic …

Escherichia coli ST131: the quintessential example of an international multiresistant high-risk clone

AJ Mathers, G Peirano, JDD Pitout - Advances in applied microbiology, 2015 - Elsevier
Escherichia coli ST131emerged during the early to mid-2000s is an important human
pathogen, has spread extensively throughout the world, and is responsible for the rapid …

An Escherichia coli ST131 pangenome atlas reveals population structure and evolution across 4,071 isolates

AG Decano, T Downing - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Escherichia coli ST131 is a major cause of infection with extensive antimicrobial resistance
(AMR) facilitated by widespread beta-lactam antibiotic use. This drug pressure has driven …

Comparative Genomic Analysis of Globally Dominant ST131 Clone with Other Epidemiologically Successful Extraintestinal Pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) …

S Shaik, A Ranjan, SK Tiwari, A Hussain… - MBio, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Escherichia coli sequence type 131 (ST131), a pandemic clone responsible for the high
incidence of extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli (ExPEC) infections, has been known widely …

ESBL-producing uropathogenic Escherichia coli isolated from dogs and cats in Switzerland

H Huber, C Zweifel, MM Wittenbrink, R Stephan - Veterinary microbiology, 2013 - Elsevier
Extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Escherichia (E.) coli have emerged in
human and veterinary medicine. The aim of this study was to investigate the presence of …

Antibiotic-resistant ST38, ST131 and ST405 strains are the leading uropathogenic Escherichia coli clones in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

MF Alghoribi, TM Gibreel, G Farnham… - Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Objectives We investigated the molecular epidemiology of uropathogenic Escherichia coli
(UPEC) from a tertiary care hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, revealing, for the first time, the …

Characteristics of Escherichia coli Sequence Type 131 Isolates That Produce Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamases: Global Distribution of the H30-Rx Sublineage

G Peirano, AK van der Bij, JL Freeman… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
We designed a study to describe the characteristics of sequence type 131 (ST131) lineages,
including the H 30-Rx sublineage, among a global collection of extended-spectrum β …