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. 2008 Sep;46(9):3094-6.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.00945-08. Epub 2008 Jul 23.

Impact of diversity of colonizing strains on strategies for sampling Escherichia coli from fecal specimens

Ebbing Lautenbach  1 , Warren B Bilker, Pam Tolomeo, Joel N Maslow
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Impact of diversity of colonizing strains on strategies for sampling Escherichia coli from fecal specimens

Ebbing Lautenbach et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2008 Sep.

Abstract

Of 49 subjects, 21 were colonized with more than one strain of Escherichia coli and 12 subjects had at least one strain present in fewer than 20% of colonies. The ability to accurately characterize E. coli strain diversity is directly related to the number of colonies sampled and the underlying prevalence of the strain.

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