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Helicobacter pylori resistance to antibiotics in 2014 in France detected by phenotypic and genotypic methods.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Aug 2016
Ducournau A, Bénéjat L, Sifré E, Bessède E, Lehours P, Mégraud F
Abstract excerpt
A large survey of antimicrobial resistance of Helicobacter pylori was performed in France in 2014: 984 patients were enrolled by 75 gastroenterologists all over the country. Among the 783 patients who had never received eradication treatment before, 266 (33.9%) were H. pylori positive. The strains showed a high rate of clarithromycin resistance (22.2%), moderate rate of resistance to levofloxacin (15.4%) and high...
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