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- Hajarsadat Sadeghi, Tahmineh Narimani, Elham Tabesh, Fatemeh Shafiee, and Rasool Soltani.
- Students Research Committee, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
- J Res Med Sci. 2022 Jan 1; 27: 39.
BackgroundThe objective of this study was to evaluate the antibiotic resistance pattern of Helicobacter pylori strains isolated from patients in Isfahan province.Materials And MethodsGastric antrum biopsy specimens of patients undergoing endoscopy were cultured. The samples with the growth of H. pylori underwent antibiotic susceptibility test by disk diffusion method.ReaultsOf 96 samples, 50 samples (53%) were positive for H. pylori. The rates of antibiotic resistance were as follows: amoxicillin, 6%; azithromycin, 20%; furazolidone, 22%; levofloxacin, 16%; metronidazole, 20%; rifampin, 12%; and tetracycline, 22%.ConclusionH. pylori strains in our area have high rates of resistance to azithromycin, levofloxacin, metronidazole, tetracycline, and furazolidone.Copyright: © 2022 Journal of Research in Medical Sciences.
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