A study of virulence and antimicrobial resistance pattern in diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli isolated from diarrhoeal stool specimens from children and adults in a tertiary hospital, Puducherry, India

• Egile Nagusiak: Mailan Natarajan (Egilea), Deepika Kumar (Egilea), Jharna Mandal (Egilea), Niranjan Biswal (Egilea), Selvaraj Stephen (Egilea)
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• Argitaratua: BMC, 2018-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Emergence of atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) and hybrid E. coli (harboring genes of more than one DEC pathotypes) strains have complicated the issue of growing antibiotic resistance in diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli (DEC). This ongoing evolution occurs in natur...