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Published on: March 3, 2023
Antibiotic profiling of Clostridium difficile ribotype 176--A multidrug resistant relative to C. difficile ribotype
Marcela Krutova1, Jana Matejkova2, Jan Tkadlec2
1Department of Medical Microbiology, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and University Hospital in Motol, Czech Republic; DNA laboratory, Department of Paediatric Neurology, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and University Hospital in Motol, Czech Republic.
Abstract:
Antibiotic profiling of twenty Czech Clostridium difficile PCR-ribotype 176 isolates revealed a high level of resistance to erythromycin, ciprofloxacin and moxifloxacin (n = 20) and to rifampicin (n = 13). Accumulation of resistance mechanisms to multiple antibiotics highlight that PCR-ribotype 176 belong to problematic epidemic strains.
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