title: Comparison of clinical and environmental strains of Escherichia coli isolated in Spain.
abstract: Susceptibilities to antimicrobial agents, bacteriophage lysis patterns and enzymatic polymorphism analysis were used to study genetic variability in Escherichia coli in order to study the relationship between clinical and environmental isolates of the species. Enzymatic polymorphism analysis proved the most useful. The findings were complemented by numerical analysis of phage typing and antimicrobial susceptibilities.
authors.affiliation: Departament de Microbiologia i Parasitologia Sanitàries, Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pont
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Fusté
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D001434:Bacteriophage Typing; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D013030:Spain
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents