%0 Journal Article
%T Epidemic Clostridioides difficile Ribotype 027 Lineages: Comparisons of Texas Versus Worldwide Strains
%A Ali Memariani
%A Anne J Gonzales-Luna
%A Bradley T Endres
%A Charlene Offiong
%A Chris Lancaster
%A Edward Septimus
%A Eug¨Śnie Bass¨¨res
%A Hua Sun
%A Julian G Hurdle
%A Kevin W Garey
%A Khurshida Begum
%A Kierra M Dotson
%A Kristi Kuper
%A M Jahangir Alam
%A Raouf Arafat
%A Seth T Walk
%A Shawn Tupy
%A Tor C Savidge
%A Zhongming Zhao
%J Archive of "Open Forum Infectious Diseases".
%D 2019
%R 10.1093/ofid/ofz013
%X The epidemic Clostridioides difficile ribotype 027 strain resulted from the dissemination of 2 separate fluoroquinolone-resistant lineages: FQR1 and FQR2. Both lineages were reported to originate in North America; however, confirmatory large-scale investigations of C difficile ribotype 027 epidemiology using whole genome sequencing has not been undertaken in the United States
%K anaerobe infections
%K antimicrobial stewardship
%K molecular epidemiology
%K whole genome sequencing
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6368847/