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Antimicrobial susceptibility and resistance mechanisms of clinical Clostridium difficile from a Chinese tertiary hospital.
International journal of antimicrobial agents - 1 Jan 2013
Dong Danfeng, Zhang Lihua, Chen Xu, Jiang Cen, Yu Beiqin, Wang Xuefeng, Peng Yibing
Abstract excerpt
Clostridium difficile is a predominant cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea. It is increasingly difficult to treat C. difficile infection efficiently owing to its multidrug resistance. In the present study, 60 clinical C. difficile isolates were collected and analysed for their genotype, antimicrobial susceptibility and resistance mechanisms. Tandem repeat sequence typing (TRST) generated 21 types, including...
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