Table 2. Animal species samples (n = 544) included for Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile detection between February 2018 and January 2020 at the laboratory of anaerobic bacteria from the veterinary university of Minas Gerais.
| Animals | Samples | C. difficile isolation | Ribotypes1 (Number of isolates) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-toxigenic | Toxigenic | ||||
| Domestic species (n = 282) | Dogs | 181 | 5 | 7 | 014(3), 106(3), 600(1) |
| Horses and foals | 47 | 6 | 12 | 078(1), 126(11) | |
| Cats | 24 | 0 | 2 | 106(2) | |
| Piglets | 19 | 4 | 13 | 002(1), 078(1), 126(9), 127(1), 695(1) | |
| Calves | 11 | 0 | 0 | None | |
| Wild and synanthropic species (n = 271) | Rodents2 | 144 | 1 | 1 | 064(1) |
| Tortoise (Chelonoidis carbonaria) | 65 | 0 | 0 | None | |
| Opossum (Didelphis sp.) | 18 | 0 | 0 | None | |
| Pigeons (Columbia livia) | 18 | 1 | 0 | None | |
| Gray Slender Opossum (Marmosops incanus) | 7 | 0 | 0 | None | |