Study of the virulence factors and resistance to oxacilin in Sthaphylococcus spp. isolated from tracheal aspirate from patients in mechanical ventilation in intensive care unit (ICU)

• Grant number: 12/19464-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: December 01, 2012
• End date: November 30, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Microbiology
• Principal Investigator: Maria de Lourdes Ribeiro de Souza da Cunha
• Grantee: Iara Batista Pompéa Ferreira
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IBB). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Botucatu. Botucatu , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The ventilator-associated pneumonias (VAP) caused by Staphylococcus spp. affects patients in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) aggravating even more their scenario. This study intends to determinate virulence factors (genes of enterotoxins A, B, C and D) and the survey of the resistance gene mecA to oxacilin in Staphylococcus spp. in mechanically ventilated patients in Intensive Care Unities from the Hospital das Clinicas, Medical School of Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil. (AU)