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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, July 2000, p. 2766-2767, Vol. 38, No. 7
Departments of Internal
Medicine1 and Laboratory
Medicine,2 National Taiwan University
Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
Received 3 December 1999/Returned for modification 5 January
2000/Accepted 29 April 2000
A 39-year-old woman with cystic bronchiectasis had repeated
pulmonary infections from 1996 to 1999, and 6 of a total of 28 isolates
of Escherichia coli from sputum specimens were studied. Their identical antibiotype and randomly amplified polymorphic DNA
patterns indicated a single clone of E. coli, which
persistently colonized the respiratory tract, causing recurrent infections.
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Recurrent Infections and Chronic Colonization by an
Escherichia coli Clone in the Respiratory Tract of a Patient
with Severe Cystic Bronchiectasis
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Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of
Laboratory Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, No. 7, Chung Shan South Rd., Taipei, 100, Taiwan. Phone: 886-2-23970800, ext. 5359. Fax: 886-2-23224263. E-mail:
linalee{at}ccms.ntu.edu.tw.
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