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Both urine and blood cultures were done for 1032 (77.9%) patients, with 126 (12.2%) discordant results; 35 (27.7%) due to a different isolate and 91 (72.3%) due to isolation of a uropathogen in the blood cultures even though the urine culture was negative.
Molecular polymorphisms indicated that Passatempo virus is a different isolate.
A sequence for a different isolate of this strain has recently been deposited at GenBank under accession number CP001363[ 41].
This likely represents an underestimation since additional repeat unit variants were found in a different isolate and novel repeat units can be generated through repeat instability.
Furthermore, isolates in this previous study were not genotyped, and the possibility that recurrence was attributable to re-infection with a different isolate rather than persistence and relapse with the primary isolate was not excluded 9.
This isolate was found to carry silent and expressed copies of the vlp1 B. recurrentis A1 gene on plasmids of 54 kbp and 24 kbp respectively, whereas a different isolate, A17, had only the silent vlp1 B. recurrentis A17 on a 54 kbp plasmid.
This fact is in agreement with the reproductive and molecular findings of this study: ticks from Indonesia, Australia and New Caledonia may be a different, reproductively isolated species.
"It's about taking something we're all used to seeing and putting it in a different context, isolating it," Mr. Stingel said.
The 14 remaining patients with a different RFLP isolate profile at T0, (four pan-susceptible, four mono-resistant, two HS resistant and four MDR strains) and T8 had a MDR strain at the end of treatment.
