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The aim of the present study was to investigate the pattern of antibiotic resistance among enteropathogenic bacteria.\n <\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Materials and Methods:<\/jats:title>\n In this cross-sectional study, 163 samples of patients with diarrhea in Dezful Ganjavian Hospital were examined. The samples were cultured in MacConkey, Hektoen enteric agar and GN broth, and cycloserine cefoxitin fructose agar media and incubated under standard conditions. In order to identify enteropathogenic bacteria, biochemical tests and serological confirmatory tests were used. Antibiotic resistance pattern of the isolates was investigated by Kirby\u2013Bauer disk diffusion susceptibility test.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results:<\/jats:title>\n \n The frequency of pathogenic bacteria includes 41.1% of\n Shigella flexneri<\/jats:italic>\n , followed by 41.1% of\n S. sonnei<\/jats:italic>\n , 6.7% of Enteropathogenic\n E. coli<\/jats:italic>\n , 5.5% of\n Salmonella enterica<\/jats:italic>\n Serogroup B, and 5.5% of\n Shigella dysenteriae<\/jats:italic>\n . The results revealed a total of 46 patients with orders regarding\n C. difficile<\/jats:italic>\n culture, no\n C. difficile<\/jats:italic>\n was isolated from the samples. 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