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For this reason, we aimed to investigate the prevalence and antimicrobial resistance pattern of this species between 2012 and 2021 at the Clinical Center of the University of Szeged, Hungary. Altogether, 498 positive samples were included from 312 patients during the study period. On the isolates, 4529 antibiotic susceptibility tests were performed. Our data revealed that the prevalence of C. striatum increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise occurred in respiratory, blood culture, and superficial samples. During the study period, the rifampicin resistance significantly increased, but others have also changed dynamically, including linezolid. The species occurred with diverse and changing co-pathogens in the COVID-19 era. However, the increasing rifampicin and linezolid resistance of C. striatum was probably not due to the most commonly isolated co-pathogens. 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