Emergence of NDM-1-producing Acinetobacter pittii in Brazil

Mariana Pagano; Laurent Poirel; Andreza Francisco Martins; Francieli P Rozales; Alexandre Prehn Zavascki; Afonso Luis Barth; Patrice Nordmann

doi:10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2014.12.011

Emergence of NDM-1-producing Acinetobacter pittii in Brazil

Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2015 Apr;45(4):444-5. doi: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2014.12.011. Epub 2015 Jan 12.

Authors

Mariana Pagano¹, Laurent Poirel², Andreza Francisco Martins³, Francieli P Rozales³, Alexandre Prehn Zavascki⁴, Afonso Luis Barth³, Patrice Nordmann⁵

Affiliations

¹ Medical and Molecular Microbiology Unit 'Emerging Antibiotic Resistance', Department of Medicine, Faculty of Science, University of Fribourg, 3 rue Albert-Gockel, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland; Programa de Pós Graduação em Ciências Farmacêutica, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil; Laboratório de Pesquisa em Resistência Bacteriana (LABRESIS), Centro de Pesquisa Experimental, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), Porto Alegre, Brazil.
² Medical and Molecular Microbiology Unit 'Emerging Antibiotic Resistance', Department of Medicine, Faculty of Science, University of Fribourg, 3 rue Albert-Gockel, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland. Electronic address: laurent.poirel@unifr.ch.
³ Programa de Pós Graduação em Ciências Farmacêutica, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil; Laboratório de Pesquisa em Resistência Bacteriana (LABRESIS), Centro de Pesquisa Experimental, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), Porto Alegre, Brazil.
⁴ Programa de Pós Graduação em Ciências Farmacêutica, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil; Infectious Diseases Service, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
⁵ Medical and Molecular Microbiology Unit 'Emerging Antibiotic Resistance', Department of Medicine, Faculty of Science, University of Fribourg, 3 rue Albert-Gockel, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland; HFR - Hôpital Cantonal de Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.

PMID: 25616530
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2014.12.011

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Acinetobacter / classification
Acinetobacter / enzymology*
Acinetobacter / isolation & purification*
Acinetobacter Infections / epidemiology
Acinetobacter Infections / microbiology*
Aged
Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology
Brazil / epidemiology
Communicable Diseases, Emerging / epidemiology
Genotype
Humans
Male
Microbial Sensitivity Tests
Mutagenesis, Insertional
Polymerase Chain Reaction
beta-Lactamases / genetics
beta-Lactamases / metabolism*
beta-Lactams / pharmacology

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
beta-Lactams
beta-Lactamases
beta-lactamase NDM-1