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Association of tcdA+/tcdB+ Clostridium difficile Genotype with Emergence of Multidrug-Resistant Strains Conferring Metronidazole Resistant Phenotype.
Iranian biomedical journal - 1 Jan 2015
Shayganmehr Farahnaz-Sadat, Alebouyeh Masoud, Azimirad Masoumeh, Aslani Mohammad Mehdi, Zali Mohammad Reza
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BACKGROUND: Reduced susceptibility of Clostridium difficile to antibiotics is problematic in clinical settings. There is new evidence indicating the cotransfer of toxin-encoding genes and conjugative transposons encoding resistance to antibiotics among different C. difficile strains. To analyze this association, in the current study, we evaluated the frequency of toxigenic C. difficile among the strains with...
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