| virulence characteristics and antimicrobial susceptibility of uropathogens from patients on phuket island, thailand. | urinary tract infection (uti) is among the most common infections in human. escherichia coli and klebsiella pneumoniae are common uropathogens found to cause uti. in this study, 113 f. coli and 52 k. pneumcniae isolates were collected from three hospitals on phuket island, thailand. the majority of e. coli and k. pneumoniae isolates were from elderly females. antimicrobial susceptibility testing demonstrated that most of f. coli isolates (77%) were resistant to tetracycline while cotrimoxazole w ... | 2014 | 25417510 |