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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, December 2005, p. 5142-5145, Vol. 49, No. 12
0066-4804/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AAC.49.12.5142-5145.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Horizontal Transfer of Erythromycin Resistance from Clostridium difficile to Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens

Patrizia Spigaglia, Fabrizio Barbanti, and Paola Mastrantonio*

Department of Infectious, Parasitic, and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Received 27 May 2005/ Returned for modification 9 July 2005/ Accepted 29 September 2005

This study demonstrates for the first time the in vitro transfer of the erythromycin resistance gene erm(B) between two obligate anaerobes, the human spore-forming pathogen Clostridium difficile and the rumen commensal Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens, suggesting that this event might occur also in the natural environment.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy. Phone: 39-06-49902335. Fax: 39-06-49387112. E-mail: pmastran{at}iss.it.

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, December 2005, p. 5142-5145, Vol. 49, No. 12
0066-4804/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AAC.49.12.5142-5145.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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