Multidrug-Resistant Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Associated with Bacteremia and Monocyte Evasion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Multidrug-Resistant Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Associated with Bacteremia and Monocyte Evasion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

We typed 600 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates collected in 51 hospitals in the Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, metropolitan area during 2014–2017. We found that multiple new clonal complex (CC) 5 sequence types had replaced previously dominant MRSA lineages in hospitals. Whole-gen...

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Main Authors: Alice Slotfeldt Viana, Ana Maria Nunes Botelho, Ahmed M. Moustafa, Craig L.K. Boge, Adriana Lucia Pires Ferreira, Maria Cícera da Silva Carvalho, Márcia Aparecida Guimarães, Bruno de Souza Scramignon Costa, Marcos Corrêa de Mattos, Sabrina Pires Maciel, Juliana Echevarria-Lima, Apurva Narechania, Kelsey O’Brien, Chanelle Ryan, Jeffrey S. Gerber, Bernadete Teixeira Ferreira Carvalho, Agnes Marie Sá Figueiredo, Paul J. Planet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2021-11-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
MRSA
molecular epidemiology
phylogenetics
bloodstream infections
monocytes
phagocytosis
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/11/21-0097_article

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