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Is High Consumption of Antibiotics Associated with Clostridium difficile Polymerase Chain Reaction–Ribotype 027 Infections in France?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2015
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We compared antibiotic consumption between hospitals affected by a strain of Clostridium difficile designated as polymerase chain reaction–ribotype 027 (CD-027) and those unaffected during an outbreak in northern France. The mean consumption of several β-lactams, amikacin, and fluoroquinolones was high in affected hospitals (P<.05). However, only levofloxacin and imipenem remained associated with emerging CD-027 in the multivariate analysis, suggesting that those antibiotics should be better targeted by prevention campaigns.
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