Article
Detection of Carbapenemase Genes in Aquatic Environments in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Registro en:
ARAUJO, Carlos Felipe Machado de; et al. Detection of Carbapenemase Genes in Aquatic Environments in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, v.60, n.7, p.4380-4383, July 2016.
0066-4804
10.1128/AAC.02753-15
1098-6596
Autor
Araujo, Carlos Felipe Machado de
Silva, Dalton Marcondes
Carneiro, Marcos Tavares
Ribeiro, Sthefanie
Fontana-Maurell, Marcela
Alvarez, Patricia
Asensi, Marise Dutra
Zahner, Viviane
Assef, Ana Paula D'Alincourt Carvalho
Resumen
This study reveals the presence of different carbapenemase genes (blaKPC, blaNDM, blaGES, and blaOXA48-like genes) detected directly from water samples and clonal dispersion (by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis [PFGE] and multilocus sequence typing [MLST]) of KPC-2-producing Enterobacteriaceae in two important urban aquatic matrixes from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, highlighting the role of aquatic environments as gene pools and the possibility of community spreading.