Article
Major globally disseminated clonal complexes of antimicrobial resistant enterococci associated with infections in cancer patients in Brazil.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Nov 2017
Santos Barbara A, Oliveira Jéssica S, Cardoso Nayara T, Barbosa André V, Superti Silvana V, Teixeira Lúcia M, Neves Felipe P G
Abstract excerpt
Cancer and hematological malignancies constitute major comorbidities in enterococcal infections, but little is known about the characteristics of enterococci affecting cancer patients. The aim of this study was to characterize 132 enterococcal clinical isolates obtained from cancer patients attending a Cancer Reference Center in Brazil between April 2013 and March 2014. Susceptibility to 17 antimicrobial agents...
Topics
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- Brazil
- Drug Resistance, Bacterial
- Enterococcus
- Genotype
- Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections
- Humans
- Microbial Sensitivity Tests
- Neoplasms