title: [Serologic groups of O-antigens of E. coli isolated from urinary tract infections within the boundaries of the USSR and East Germany].
abstract: A total of 373 E. coli strains, isolated in urinary tract infections from children and adults in Rostock (GDR) and Moscow (USSR), were found to belong to 63 O-groups. E. coli isolated in Rostock belonged to 36 O-groups, and in Moscow to 53 O-groups. The occurrence of E. coli serogroups in the dominating O-groups (more than 2% of the total number of strains) in Rostock (O1, O2, O4, O6, O7, O8, O9, O15, O21, O25, O75, O102) differed from that in Moscow (O1, O2, O4, O6, O8, O9, O15, O16, O17, O18, O25, O28, O73, O75) in composition and frequency, in Rostock the predominant E. coli groups being O2, O4, O6, O7, O9, O21, O75, O102, while in Moscow O1, O8, O15, O16, O17, O18, O25, O28, O73. The partial O-antigen composition of E. coli strains belonging to the same O-groups, isolated in Rostock and Moscow, was different in groups O1, O2, O125.
mesh_terms: D000942:Antigens, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis*; D001437:Bacteriuria / Q000382:microbiology; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005859:Germany, East; D006801:Humans; D009031:Moscow; D011704:Pyelonephritis / Q000382:microbiology; D012703:Serotyping; D014552:Urinary Tract Infections / Q000382:microbiology*
chemical_list: D000942:Antigens, Bacterial
vernacular_title: Serologicheskie gruppy O-antigenov E. coli, vydelennykh pri infektsiiakh mochevykh puteĭ na territoriiakh SSSR i GDR.