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        <journal-meta>
            <journal-id journal-id-type="issn">0973-7510</journal-id>
            <journal-title-group>
                <journal-title>Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology</journal-title>
            </journal-title-group>
            <issn pub-type="epub">2581-690X</issn>
            <publisher>
                <publisher-name>DR. M.N. Khan</publisher-name>
            </publisher>
        </journal-meta>
        <article-meta>
            <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22207/JPAM.10.4.01</article-id>
            <title-group>
                <article-title>Genome Sequence and Comparative Pathogenic Determinants of
Multidrug Resistant Uropathogenic Escherichia coli O25b:H4,A Clinical Isolate from Saudi Arabia</article-title>
            </title-group>
            <contrib-group>
                <contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Alyamani</surname>
                        <given-names>Essam J. </given-names>
                    </name>
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					 </contrib>
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Khiyami</surname>
                        <given-names>Anamil M.</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/>
                </contrib>
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Booq</surname>
                        <given-names>Rayan Y.</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/>
                </contrib>
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Bahwerth</surname>
                        <given-names>Fayez S.</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-3"/>
                </contrib>
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Vaisvil</surname>
                        <given-names>Benjamin</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-4"/>
                </contrib>
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Schmitt</surname>
                        <given-names>Daniel P.</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/>
                </contrib>
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Kapatral</surname>
                        <given-names>Vinayak</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-4"/>
                </contrib>
		
            </contrib-group>
				         <aff id="aff-1">National center for Biotechnology, King Abdulaziz City
for Science and Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.</aff>
			<aff id="aff-2">Princess Nora Bint Abdul Rahman University College of Medicine,
Riyadh 12484 P.O box 84428, Saudi Arabia.</aff>
			<aff id="aff-3">Clinical microbiology laboratory, Hera General Hospital, Makkah, Saudi Arabia.</aff>
			<aff id="aff-4">Igenbio Inc., Chicago, Illinois, USA.</aff>
	 
					
            <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2016-12-30">
                <day>30</day>
                <month>12</month>
                <year>2016</year>
            </pub-date>
            <volume>10</volume>
            <issue>4</issue>
            <fpage>2475</fpage>
            <lpage>2484</lpage>
            <permissions>
                <copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 2016 The Author(s)</copyright-statement>
                <copyright-year>2016</copyright-year>
                <license license-type="open-access"
                    xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
                    <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.<uri 
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                </license>
            </permissions>
            <self-uri xlink:href="https://www.microbiologyjournal.org/genome-sequence-and-comparative-pathogenic-determinants-of-multidrug-resistant-uropathogenic-escherichia-coli-o25bh4-a-clinical-isolate-from-saudi-arabia/"/>
            <abstract>
                <p>Escherichia coli serotype O25b:H4 is involved in human urinary tract infections.
In this study, we sequenced and analyzed E. coli O25b:H4 isolated from a patient suffering
from recurring UTI infections in an intensive care unit at Hera General Hospital in
Makkah, Saudi Arabia. We aimed to determine the virulence genes for pathogenesis and
drug resistance of this isolate compared to other E. coli strains. We sequenced and analyzed
the E. coli O25b:H4 Saudi strain clinical isolate using next generation sequencing. Using
the ERGO genome analysis platform, we performed annotations and identified virulence
and antibiotic resistance determinants of this clinical isolate. The E. coli O25b:H4 genome
was assembled into four contigs representing a total chromosome size of 5.28 Mb, and
three contigs were identified, including a 130.9 kb (virulence plasmid) contig bearing the
bla-CTX gene and 32 kb and 29 kb contigs. In comparing this genome to other
uropathogenic E. coli genomes, we identified unique drug resistance and pathogenicity
factors. In this work, whole-genome sequencing and targeted comparative analysis of a
clinical isolate of uropathogenic Escherichia coli O25b:H4 was performed. This strain
encodes virulence genes linked with extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli (ExPEC) that are
expressed constitutively in E. coli ST131. We identified the genes responsible for
pathogenesis and drug resistance and performed comparative analyses of the virulence
and antibiotic resistance determinants with those of other E. coli UPEC isolates. This is
the first report of genome sequencing and analysis of a UPEC strain from Saudi Arabia.
		</p>
		</abstract>
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        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>Saudi</kwd>
        <kwd>drug resistance</kwd>
         <kwd>E.coli</kwd>
			<kwd>UTI</kwd>
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