| Literature DB >> 22908175 |
Robert J Carman1, James H Boone, Harish Grover, Kimberly N Wickham, Li Chen.
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We report the selection of Clostridium difficile resistant to the rifamycin class of antibiotics in a patient within 32 h of receiving rifaximin for the treatment of recurrent C. difficile diarrhea. Resistance was associated with single nucleotide substitutions within rpoB.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22908175 PMCID: PMC3486587 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00974-12
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Antimicrob Agents Chemother ISSN: 0066-4804 Impact factor: 5.191