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Escherichia coli Causing Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections: Comparison to Non-Recurrent Isolates and Genomic Adaptation in Recurrent Infections by Nielsen, Karen Leth (author);Stegger, Marc (author);Kiil, Kristoffer (author);Lilje, Berit (author);Ejrnæs, Karen (author);Leihof, Rikke Fleron (author);Skjøt-Rasmussen, Line (author);Godfrey, Paul (author);Monsen, Tor (author);Ferry, Sven (author);Hammerum, Anette M. (author);Frimodt-Møller, Niels (author) is a Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology article available to read on EtoBox.

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Recurrent urinary tract infection (rUTI) remains a major problem for many women and therefore the pursuit for genomic and phenotypic traits which could define rUTI has been ongoing. The present study applied a genomic approach to investigate recurrent urinary tract infections by comparative analyses of recurrent and non-recurrent __Escherichia coli__ isolates from general practice. From whole-genome sequencing data, phylogenetic clustering and genomic traits were studied on a collection of isolates which caused recurrent infection compared to non-recurrent isolates. In addition, genomic variation between the 1st and following infection was studied on a subset of the isolates. Evidence of limited adaptation between the recurrent infections based on single nucleotide polymorphism analyses with a range of 0–13 non-synonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) between the paired isolates. This included an overrepresentation of SNPs in metabolism genes. We identified several genes which were more common in rUTI isolates, including nine fimbrial genes, however, not significantly after false-discovery rate. Finally, the results show that recurrent isolates of the present dataset are n

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Author

Nielsen, Karen Leth (author);Stegger, Marc (author);Kiil, Kristoffer (author);Lilje, Berit (author);Ejrnæs, Karen (author);Leihof, Rikke Fleron (author);Skjøt-Rasmussen, Line (author);Godfrey, Paul (author);Monsen, Tor (author);Ferry, Sven (author);Hammerum, Anette M. (author);Frimodt-Møller, Niels (author)

Publisher

MDPI AG

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Life Sciences)