Evaluation of Antibiotic Resistance of Strains Isolated in Bari, Southern Italy, in 2017-2018 by Phenotypic and Genotyping Methods.

antibiotic resistance is a constantly evolving process and local surveillance is warranted to guide clinicians in the choice of therapy. Antibiotic susceptibility testing was performed by E-test on 92 strains, and resistance to clarithromycin and levofloxacin was also evaluated using a commercially available genotyping method. In naïve patients the resistance to clarithromycin, levofloxacin, and metronidazole was 37.