Abstract
We examined the environmental dissemination of Acinetobacter nosocomialis multilocus sequence typing clonal complex 260/71 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, including water from a dam and food samples. The increasing use of sequence based methods has demonstrated a large, previously unpredicted, dissemination of bacteria that may serve as opportunistic pathogens.
Publication types
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Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
MeSH terms
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Acinetobacter / classification
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Acinetobacter / genetics
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Acinetobacter / isolation & purification*
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Acinetobacter Infections / epidemiology
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Acinetobacter Infections / microbiology*
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Brazil / epidemiology
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Cluster Analysis
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Critical Illness*
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Food Microbiology*
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Genotype
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Humans
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Molecular Epidemiology
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Multilocus Sequence Typing
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Water Microbiology*