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cord-305694-qzf425lw	Andrés-Lasheras, Sara	Preliminary studies on isolates of Clostridium difficile from dogs and exotic pets	2018-03-09		.txt	text/plain	4542	253	48	CONCLUSIONS: The results obtained in this study suggest the implementation of antimicrobial susceptibility surveillance programs to assess the prevalence of metronidazole resistance in dogs; molecular studies to elucidate C. difficile in canine enteric disease is still unclear due to the presence of toxigenic strains or their toxins in asymptomatic animals and the failure to reproduce CDI in healthy dogs with and without antibiotic treatment [9, 10] . difficile, molecular characterisation of the strains obtained (i.e. tpi housekeeping and toxin genes detection by PCR, identification of non-toxigenic strains, and PCR-ribotyping) and antimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed as described elsewhere [21] . Since the ribotypes found in dogs are also commonly found in humans, it is possible Fig. 2 Metronidazole susceptibility test of Clostridium difficile D24 strain after 48 h of incubation. Antibiotic resistance patterns and PCR-ribotyping of Clostridium difficile strains isolated from swine and dogs in Italy	./cache/cord-305694-qzf425lw.txt	./txt/cord-305694-qzf425lw.txt