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E coli is the most common cause of UTI.

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What is the microorganism name for a female UTI?

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Is e coli in urine contagious?

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What causes a man to get an e coli UTI?

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What is the recommended treatment using cephalexin for a patient with a UTI caused by E. coli?

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Is e coli prokaryotic or eukaryotic?

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What does e coli do to kill people?

E. coli can cause a variety of human infections, such as infections in your bladder (a UTI), or infections in your intestines. E coli has different ways it gets around the body's immune system to cause infections.


What about a positive nitrate in urine- but uti is ruled out?

In that case, I would suspect that the culture ordered from the lab repors only >10^5 CFU, and a lower level of E coli was present in the urinary tract -- enough to cause a positive nitrate, but not enough to be reported as "UTI" on the culture.


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Does E-coli cause Salmonella?

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