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  • article 33 Citação(ões) na Scopus
    Antimicrobial susceptibility of Brazilian Clostridium difficile strains determined by agar dilution and disk diffusion
    (2016) FRAGA, Edmir Geraldo; NICODEMO, Antonio Carlos; SAMPAIO, Jorge Luiz Mello
    Clostridium difficile is a leading cause of diarrhea in hospitalized patients worldwide. While metronidazole and vancomycin are the most prescribed antibiotics for the treatment of this infection, teicoplanin, tigecycline and nitazoxanide are alternatives drugs. Knowledge on the antibiotic susceptibility profiles is a basic step to differentiate recurrence from treatment failure due to antimicrobial resistance. Because C. difficile antimicrobial susceptibility is largely unknown in Brazil, we aimed to determine the profile of C. difficile strains cultivated from stool samples of inpatients with diarrhea and a positive toxin A/B test using both agar dilution and disk diffusion methods. All 50 strains tested were sensitive to metronidazole according to CLSI and EUCAST breakpoints with an MIC90 value of 21,1 mu g/mL. Nitazoxanide and tigecycline were highly active in vitro against these strains with an MIC90 value of 0.125 mu g/mL for both antimicrobials. The MIC90 were 4 mu g/mL and 2 mu g/mL for vancomycin and teicoplanin, respectively. A resistance rate of 8% was observed for moxifloxacin. Disk diffusion can be used as an alternative to screen for moxifloxacin resistance, nitazoxanide, tigecycline and metronidazole susceptibility, but it cannot be used for testing glycopeptides. Our results suggest that C. difficile strains from Sao Paulo city, Brazil, are susceptible to metronidazole and have low MIC90 values for most of the current therapeutic options available in Brazil. (C) 2016 Sociedade Brasileira de Infectologia.
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    International high-risk clones of Klebsiella pneumoniae KPC-2/CC258 and Escherichia coli CTX-M-15/CC10 in urban lake waters
    (2017) NASCIMENTO, Tatiane; CANTAMESSA, Rodrigo; MELO, Luana; FERNANDES, Miriam R.; FRAGA, Edmir; DROPA, Milena; SATO, Maria I. Z.; CERDEIRA, Louise; LINCOPAN, Nilton
    The emergence of high-risk clones of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria in aquatic environments has generated an important public health problem, creating an urgent need to strengthen surveillance. This study reports the occurrence of clinically significant MDR Enterobacteriaceae and non-fermentative bacteria carrying carbapenemases (KPC-2), extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (CTX-M) and plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance (PMQR) genes in urban lakes and reservoirs, in Southeastern Brazil. In this regard, the detection of hospital-associated lineages of KPC-2-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae belonging to the international clonal complex CC258 (STH) and CTX-M-15-producing Escherichia coli belonging to the international CC10 (ST617), in an urban lake, is reported for the first time. Whole genome sequencing (WGS) analysis of KPC-2-producing K. pneumoniae ST11 revealed that bla(KPC-2) gene was carried by an IncN plasmid on a Tn4401b element. This study support that aquatic environments with public access can act as reservoirs of clinically important MDR bacteria, constituting a potential risk to human and animal health. On the other hand, the detection of high-risk clones highlights the extra-hospital spread of clinically significant bacteria into urban aquatic environments.