Abstract
To identify bacterial predictors of recurrence and/or persistence in acute cystitis, extended virulence genotypes were compared with clonal background and epidemiologic status among 74 Escherichia coli urine isolates from women with first or recurrent episodes of urinary tract infection (UTI). Sequential isolates from patients with recurrent UTI were classified, using macrorestriction analysis, as having caused an isolated recurrence versus a single or multiple same-strain recurrences, papA, papG allele II, iha, and iutA predicted multiple same-strain recurrences, whereas nfaE and the absence of sfaS or fyuA predicted isolated recurrences. Phylogenetic group B2 accounted for 70% of isolates and for most of the putative virulence factors (VFs) studied. The meningitis-associated O18:K1:H7 clonal group comprised 18% of isolates, exhibited multiple VFs, and caused "once-only" recurrences less commonly than did other strains. These findings identify specific VFs and clonal groups against which preventive interventions might be beneficial and illustrate the importance of delineating pathogenetically relevant subgroups within the "recurrent cystitis" population.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1508-1517 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Journal of Infectious Diseases |
| Volume | 183 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - May 15 2001 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Financial support: Office of Research and Development, Medical Research Service, Department of Veterans Affairs (to J.R.J. and T.A.R.); National Institutes of Health (DK-47504 to J.R.J., DK-40045 and DK-53369 to A.S., and AI-42059 to T.A.R.); US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (DAMD17-96-1-6301 to A.S.). a University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis.