Diversity of multidrug-resistant epidemic Clostridium difficile NAP1/RT027/ST01 strains in tertiary hospitals from Honduras.

In recent years, reports of NAP1/RT027/ST01 epidemic strains of Clostridium difficile producing outbreaks of healthcare-associated diarrhea have increased in America and Europe. We cultivated multidrug-resistant NAP1/RT027/ST01 strains from the FQR2 linage from TcdA/TcdB stool samples obtained from patients in two Honduran hospitals. The PFGE macrorestriction patterns of two of the isolates were new.