High endemic rates of OXA-23-producing carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates caused by the persistence of major clones in hospitals in a Brazilian city 5 years after an outbreak

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2015 Jul;36(7):860-2. doi: 10.1017/ice.2015.52. Epub 2015 Mar 16.

Authors

Mariana Pagano¹, Juliana Barin², Andreza F Martins³, Alexandre P Zavascki⁴

Affiliations

¹ 1Programa de Pós Graduação em Ciências Farmacêuticas, Faculdade de Farmácia,Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS),Porto Alegre,Brazil.
² 3Programa de Pós Graduação em Ciências Médicas, Faculdade de Medicina,UFRGS,Porto Alegre,Brazil.
³ 2Laboratório de Pesquisa em Resistência Bacteriana (LABRESIS),Centro de Pesquisa Experimental,Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA),Porto Alegre,Brazil.
⁴ 4Infectious Diseases Service,Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre,Porto Alegre,Brazil.

PMID: 25773462
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.52

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Acinetobacter Infections / epidemiology*
Acinetobacter Infections / microbiology
Acinetobacter baumannii / drug effects
Acinetobacter baumannii / enzymology
Acinetobacter baumannii / genetics
Acinetobacter baumannii / isolation & purification*
Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology
Brazil / epidemiology
Carbapenems / pharmacology
Cross Infection / epidemiology*
Cross Infection / microbiology
DNA, Bacterial / genetics
Disease Outbreaks*
Endemic Diseases*
Humans
Inhibitory Concentration 50
Microbial Sensitivity Tests
Molecular Epidemiology
Molecular Typing
Tertiary Care Centers
Time Factors
beta-Lactam Resistance*
beta-Lactamases / biosynthesis*
beta-Lactamases / genetics

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Carbapenems
DNA, Bacterial
beta-lactamase OXA-23
beta-Lactamases