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Volume 13, Number 5—May 2007
Dispatch

Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Related to Uropathogenic Clonal Group A

Faith Wallace-Gadsden*1, James R. Johnson†‡, John Wain§, and Iruka N. Okeke*Comments to Author 

Author affiliations: *Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA;; †Minneapolis Veterans Administration Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA;; ‡University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; and; §Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

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Table 2

Multilocus sequence types of CGA-associated fumC single-nucleotide polymorphism–positive strains*

Strain Clinical condition, country Allele profile
 ST ST complex
adk fumC gyrB icd mdh purA recA
C08
 Diarrhea, Nigeria
 21
 35
 61
 52
 5
 5
 4
 394
 69
C14
 Diarrhea, Nigeria
 21
 35
 61
 52
 5
 5
 4
 394
 69
E23
 Diarrhea, Nigeria
 21
 35
 61
 52
 5
 72
 4
 432
 69
E30
 Diarrhea, Nigeria
 21
 35
 61
 52
 5
 5
 4
 394
 69
G10
 Diarrhea, Nigeria
 21
 35
 61
 52
 5
 5
 4
 394
 69
G17a
 Diarrhea, Nigeria
 21
 35
 61
 52
 5
 5
 4
 394
 69
G59
 Diarrhea, Nigeria
 21
 35
 61
 52
 5
 5
 4
 394
 69
G67b
 Diarrhea, Nigeria
 21
 35
 61
 52
 5
 5
 4
 394
 69
E64
 Healthy, Nigeria
 21
 35
 61
 52
 5
 5
 4
 394
 69
G108
 Healthy, Nigeria
 21
 35
 61
 52
 5
 5
 4
 394
 69
144-1
 Diarrhea, Thailand
 21
 35
 61
 52
 5
 5
 4
 394
 69
SEQ102†
 UTI (CGA), USA
 21
 35
 27
 6
 5
 5
 4
 69
 69
C16
 Healthy, Nigeria
 21
 22
 2
 6
 5
 5
 4
 512
 Unassigned
G55
 Healthy, Nigeria
 6
 4
 33
 1
 20
 12
 7
 423
 Unassigned
E56
 Healthy, Nigeria
 18
 22
 17
 6
 5
 5
 4
 31
 31
E62
 Healthy, Nigeria
 21
 125
 61
 52
 5
 5
 4
 471
 Unassigned
E68
 Healthy, Nigeria
 18
 22
 94
 6
 5
 5
 4
 449
 Unassigned
G103
 Healthy, Nigeria
 18
 22
 94
 6
 5
 5
 4
 449
 Unassigned
G121a
 Healthy, Nigeria
 18
 22
 1
 6
 5
 5
 4
 474
 Unassigned
G149 Healthy, Nigeria 18 22 1 6 5 5 4 474 Unassigned

*CGA, clonal group A; ST, sequence type; UTI, urinary tract infection.
†Data from reference (14). Data for all other isolates are from this study.

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1Current affiliation: Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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