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| Author(s): |
Luciana Camila Cacci
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Ciências Médicas |
| Defense date: | 2007-08-28 |
| Examining board members: |
Marcelo de Carvalho Ramos;
Carlos Alberto Pires Pereira;
Plinio Trabasso
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| Advisor: | Marcelo de Carvalho Ramos |
| Abstract | |
Objective: Genetic relatedness and Metallo-lactamase production was investigated in Imipenem resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa recovered from hospital acquired infections. Design: Descriptive study in a convenient sample of organisms. Setting: Two 400-bed tertiary care teaching hospitals, in Campinas, Brazil. All Imipenem resistant P. aeruginosa, recovered from March, 2000 through December 2004 from hospitalized patients were collected Methods: Disk diffusion tests were used to confirm Imipenem resistance. E-test MBL@ was done to check for MBL production, ando Imipenem MIC's blasPM-l, .blaIMP-l, blaVIM-l and blaVIM-2 sequences were amplified. Results: A sample of 128 Imipenem resistant P. aeruginosa isolates was collected during the study period. Most isolates exhibited Imipenem MIC's > 256 ug/mL. Macrorestriction analysis (Spel) using pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) showed a substantial polymorphism. Only 15 strains could be allocated to seven clusters, six with two isolates and one with three isolates. Ninety-eight Imipenem resistant isolates were screened for MBL production. Seventy isolates showed MBL production, and blasPM-l sequence could be amplified from 12 isolates. In the remaining strains no other MBL-type from blaIMP-l, blaVIM-l and blaVIM-2 investigated in the study was demonstrated. Conclusion: Dissemination of MBL producing-genotypically heterogenous Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains was documented in the hospitals studied. Only SPM-l metallo-_-lactamase was found among these strains (AU) | |