“Bacterial Consortium”: A Potential Evolution of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for the Treatment of Clostridioides difficile Infection

Table 1

List of bacterial strains isolated by culturomics and relative concentrations in BC and MIC values obtained by Epsilon tests performed in triplicate. MER: meropenem; CLI: clindamycin; MRD: metronidazole; TZP: piperacillin-tazobactam; not applicable: there are no EUCAST clinical breakpoints for these strains.

Bacterial strain	Concentration (CFU/mL)	MIC values
Acidaminococcus intestini		Not applicable
Bacteroides fragilis		MER 1 S; CLI 64 R; MRD 1 S; TZP 4 S
Bacteroides ovatus		MER 0.25 S; CLI 4 S; MRD 8 R; TZP 4 S
Bacteroides uniformis		MER 0.25 S; CLI 2 S; MRD 4 S; TZP 4 S
Bifidobacterium longum		Not applicable
Clostridium scindens		Not applicable
Lactobacillus casei		Not applicable
Lactobacillus gasseri		Not applicable
Lactobacillus rhamnosus		Not applicable
Lactobacillus parabuchneri		Not applicable
Parabacteroides distasonis		Not applicable
Propionibacterium avidum		Not applicable
Ruminococcus gnavus		Not applicable