VARIABLE EXPRESSION OF P FIMBRIAE IN ESCHERICHIA COLI URINARY TRACT INFECTION
1989; Elsevier BV; Volume: 333; Issue: 8652 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/s0140-6736(89)90125-6
ISSN1474-547X
AutoresMonika Lichodziejewska, Robert Steadman, Kate Verrier Jones, Nicholas Topley, RuthK. Mackenzie, JohnD. Williams,
Tópico(s)Escherichia coli research studies
ResumoFresh urinary isolates were examined by immunofluorescence with polyclonal rabbit antibodies against type 1 and P fimbriae. This procedure showed P-fimbriate Escherichia coli in 22 of 24 samples from patients with asymptomatic bacteriuria, 24 of 26 samples from patients with cystitis, and 6 of 6 samples from patients with pyelonephritis. Type 1 fimbriae were expressed by less than 40% of isolates in all three groups. There was no relation between the presence of symptoms or the site of infection and fimbrial expression, of P or type 1, by bacteria adherent to freshly isolated uroepithelial cells.
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