-transparent.png){kind=logo}
The frequency of nine potential Escherichia coli urinary tract infection (UTI) virulence factors was investigated among 216 isolates from 208 women 18-40 years old with first-time UTI. Factors were afimbrial adhesions I-IV and F1845 pili (drb), aerobactin (aer), group II capsules (kpsMT), cytotoxic necrotizing factor 1 (cnf1), alpha-hemolysin (hly), outer membrane protease T (ompT), Pap and Prs pili (prf), S fimbriae (sfa), and type 1 pili (fim). Women were enrolled at two sites. Pairwise comparisons found 14 statistically significant associations between virulence genes after correcting for multiple comparisons. This is the first report of five associations: aer and drb, kpsMT and ompT, ompT and cnf1, ompT and sfa, and prf and ompT. As ompT is not closely linked genetically to kpsMT, cnf1, prf, or sfa, ompT may be functionally linked with one or more of these other virulence factors.
B Foxman, and
L Zhang, and
K Palin, and
P Tallman, and
C F Marrs
January 2007,
Roumanian archives of microbiology and immunology,
B Foxman, and
L Zhang, and
K Palin, and
P Tallman, and
C F Marrs
June 1993,
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America,
B Foxman, and
L Zhang, and
K Palin, and
P Tallman, and
C F Marrs
January 1991,
Clinical microbiology reviews,
B Foxman, and
L Zhang, and
K Palin, and
P Tallman, and
C F Marrs
January 1975,
Lancet (London, England),
B Foxman, and
L Zhang, and
K Palin, and
P Tallman, and
C F Marrs
January 2014,
BioMed research international,
B Foxman, and
L Zhang, and
K Palin, and
P Tallman, and
C F Marrs
November 2001,
Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift (1946),
B Foxman, and
L Zhang, and
K Palin, and
P Tallman, and
C F Marrs
February 1975,
Lancet (London, England),
B Foxman, and
L Zhang, and
K Palin, and
P Tallman, and
C F Marrs
September 2021,
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases,
B Foxman, and
L Zhang, and
K Palin, and
P Tallman, and
C F Marrs
August 1982,
Journal of medical microbiology,
B Foxman, and
L Zhang, and
K Palin, and
P Tallman, and
C F Marrs
January 1991,
Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologicas,
