Prevalence of E. coli ST131 among Uropathogenic E. coli Isolates from Iraqi Patients in Wasit Province, Iraq

Table 4

Distribution of E. coli ST131 clone among phylogroups of UPEC isolates from patients with acute UTI by conventional PCR assay.

Phylogroups	No. of E. coli isolates	No. (%) of E. coli ST131-positive isolates	No. (%) of E. coli O25 and O16-positive isolates
			rfb 25	rfb 16
B2	38	35 (92.1)	6 (17.1)	1 (2.85)
B1	7	7 (100)	1 (14.8)	0
A	6	3 (50)	0	0
D	3	3 (100)	0	0
C	1	1 (100)	0	0
F	2	2 (100)	0	0
NT	3	1 (33.3)	0	0