Volume 15, Number 5—May 2009
Dispatch
Clostridium difficile in Ready-to-Eat Salads, Scotland
Marwah M. Bakri, Derek J. Brown, John P. Butcher, and Alistair D. Sutherland
Table 2
Susceptibility of 3 Clostridium difficile isolates to 6 antimicrobial drugs, by source of isolate, Scotland, UK, 2008*
| Antimicrobial drug | Source of isolate |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Baby leaf spinach (MIC, µg/mL) | Organic mixed leaf salad (MIC, µg/mL) | Organic lettuce (MIC, µg/mL) | |
| Metronidazole | S (0.125) | S (0.094) | S (0.75) |
| Vancomycin | S (0.50) | S (0.38) | S (1.0) |
| Moxifloxacin | S (0.50) | S (0.75) | R (256) |
| Clindamycin | I (4.0) | I (6.0) | R (8.0) |
| Erythromycin | S (1.5) | S (0.75) | R (192) |
| Cefotaxime | I (48) | R (64) | R (256) |
*S, sensitive; R, resistant; I, intermediate.
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