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In vitro activity of new generation fluoroquinolones against genotypically distinct and indistinguishable Clostridium difficile isolates.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Oct 2000
Wilcox M H, Fawley W, Freeman J, Brayson J
Abstract excerpt
We compared the activities of ciprofloxacin and levofloxacin with those of the newer fluoroquinolones grepafloxacin, moxifloxacin, sparfloxacin and trovafloxacin against Clostridium difficile isolates. As there is good evidence of marked clonal spread of C. difficile, we studied both genotypically distinct (n = 26) and indistinguishable (n = 28) isolates as determined by random amplified polymorphic DNA and...
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