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Table 2 Rates of resistance and susceptibility to levofloxacin and clarithromycin in accordance with detection methods (GenoType HelicoDR kit or Etest)

From: Phenotypic and genotypic correlation as expressed in Helicobacter pylori resistance to clarithromycin and fluoroquinolones

Method/antibiotic

Levofloxacin and clarithromycin susceptibility

Levofloxacin resistance

Clarithromycin resistance

GenoType HelicoDR (npositive = 66)

20 (30.3%)

14 (21.2%)a

44 (66.7%)a

E test (npositive = 54)

20 (37.1%)

0 (0%)

34 (62.9%)

  1. aResistant to both antibiotics
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Gut Pathogens

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