CHARACTERIZATION OF CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE ISOLATED FROM DIARRHEAL PATIENTS IN A TERTIARY-CARE HOSPITAL, KARNATAKA, SOUTH INDIA

Increase in Clostridium difficile infection in tertiary-care hospitals in Karnataka, South India with a paucity of data on antibiotic susceptibility and genetic characteristics of the pathogen from this region of the country necessitated this study. From April 2012 to December 2014, 480 hospitalized...

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Published inSoutheast Asian journal of tropical medicine and public health Vol. 47; no. 6; pp. 1221 - 1230
Main Authors Rituparna, Chakraborty, Mamatha, Ballal, Mukhyaprana, Prabhu M, Manjunatha, Hande H, Gururaja, Pazhani P, Thandavarayan, Ramamurthy
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Thailand Central Coordinating Board, SEAMEO-TROPMED Project 01.11.2016
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Summary:Increase in Clostridium difficile infection in tertiary-care hospitals in Karnataka, South India with a paucity of data on antibiotic susceptibility and genetic characteristics of the pathogen from this region of the country necessitated this study. From April 2012 to December 2014, 480 hospitalized antibiotic-associated diarrhea cases with a history of antibiotic treatment in the previous three weeks were enrolled. Sixteen percent of the samples were positive for C. difficile toxins A and B by rapid enzyme immunoassay, anaerobic culture and multiplex PCR. In 40 representative strains, minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) determined by E-test revealed that 39 strains were resistant to imipenem and moxifloxacin (MIC > 32 μg/ml), 38 to clindamycin (MIC > 256 μg/ml) and 19 to tetracycline (MIC > 4 μg/ml), while all 40 strains were susceptible to ampicillin (MIC < 2 μg/ml), ampicillin sulbactam (MIC < 8 μg/ml), metronidazole (MIC < 8 μg/ml) and vancomycin group (MIC < 2 μg/ml). Pulsed field gel-electrophoresis (PFGE) of 13 representative strains grouped them into three clusters: cluster A consisting of two strains having > 65% similarity, cluster B of 6 strains with 100% similarity (considered clonal) and 3 strains with > 85% similarity, and cluster C of 2 strains with 50% similarity. Clusters A and C contained unrelated strains having different antibiograms. Periodic monitoring of resistance profiles with epidemiological typing by PFGE should aid in interpretation of emerging drug resistant C. difficile clones.
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ISSN:0125-1562