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Volume 16, Number 4—April 2010

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Fluoroquinolone Resistance and Clostridium difficile, Germany

Nils Henning ZaißComments to Author , Wolfgang Witte, and Ulrich Nübel
Author affiliations: Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode, Germany

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Table 1

Mean MICs of Clostridium difficile PCR ribotypes for metronidazole and vancomycin

PCR ribotype (no.) Metronidazole, mean MIC, mg/L Vancomycin, mean MIC, mg/L
001 (303) 0.056 1.54
078 (46) 0.071 1.6
027 (51) 0.06 1.42
014 (21) 0.05 1.58
046 (14) 0.041 1.55
012 (14) 0.054 1.96
015 (6) 0.071 1.92

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