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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, July 2000, p. 2766-2767, Vol. 38, No. 7
0095-1137/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Recurrent Infections and Chronic Colonization by an Escherichia coli Clone in the Respiratory Tract of a Patient with Severe Cystic Bronchiectasis

Jann-Yuan Wang,1 Po-Ren Hsueh,2 Jann-Tay Wang,1 Li-Na Lee,2,* Pan-Chyr Yang,1 and Kwen-Tay Luh2

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.

* 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.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, July 2000, p. 2766-2767, Vol. 38, No. 7
0095-1137/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.




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