Surveillance for resistance to metronidazole and vancomycin in genotypically distinct and UK epidemic Clostridium difficile isolates in a large teaching hospital

J Antimicrob Chemother. 2005 Nov;56(5):988-9. doi: 10.1093/jac/dki357. Epub 2005 Sep 29.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology
  • Clostridioides difficile / drug effects*
  • Clostridioides difficile / isolation & purification
  • Cross Infection / epidemiology
  • Cross Infection / microbiology
  • Drug Resistance, Bacterial*
  • Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / epidemiology
  • Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / microbiology*
  • Hospitals, Teaching
  • Humans
  • Inpatients
  • Metronidazole / pharmacology*
  • United Kingdom / epidemiology
  • Vancomycin Resistance*

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Metronidazole