TY - JOUR AU - Campanile, Floriana AU - Carretto, Edoardo AU - Barbarini, Daniela AU - Grigis, Annalisa AU - Falcone, Marco AU - Goglio, Antonio AU - Venditti, Mario AU - Stefani, Stefania T1 - Clonal Multidrug-Resistant Corynebacterium striatum Strains, Italy T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2009 VL - 15 IS - 1 SP - 75 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We assessed the clinical relevance and performed molecular characterization of 36 multidrug-resistant strains of Corynebacterium striatum. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis confirmed a single clone, possessing erm(X), tetA/B, cmxA/B, and aphA1 genes, but few related subclones. This strain is emerging as a pathogen in Italy. KW - Corynebacterium striatum KW - multi-resistance plasmid pTP10 KW - emerging clinical role KW - dispatch KW - Italy DO - 10.3201/eid1501.080804 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/15/1/08-0804_article ER - End of Reference