Heme is crucial for medium-dependent metronidazole resistance in clinical isolates of C. difficile
I. M. Boekhoud, I. Sidorov, S. Nooij…·European Study Group for Clostridioides difficile
The paper shows heme dependence in metronidazole resistance in C. difficile clinical isolates, linked to a SNP in hsmA and associated with a resistant lineage.