Nondiphtherial Corynebacterium species isolated from clinical specimens of patients in a university hospital, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Braz. j. microbiol
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34(1): 39-44, Jan.-Apr. 2003.
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ABSTRACT
Over a five-year period, 163 strains of Corynebacterium sp. were recovered from different clinical specimens of patients from a Brazilian University hospital. Genitourinary tract and intravenous sites specimens were the most frequent sources of corynebacteria (46.62 percent). Corynebacterium amycolatum (29.55 percent), Corynebacterium minutissimum (20.45 percent) and Corynebacterium pseudodiphtheriticum (13.63 percent) were the predominant species found in genitourinary tract. C. minutissimum (24.14 percent) and Corynebacterium propinquum (17.24 percent) in surgical and/or other skin wounds and abscesses; Corynebacterium xerosis (25 percent), C. amycolatum (21.87 percent) and C. pseudodiphtheriticum (18.75 percent) in intravenous sites; C. pseudodiphtheriticum (33.33 percent) and C. propinquum (33.33 percent) in lower respiratory tract. Microorganisms were all susceptible to vancomycin and most of the species was predominantly resistant to beta-lactams. Antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of corynebacteria were not predictable. Multiple antibiotic resistance observed in C. jeikeium was also found among C. xerosis, C. minutissimum, C. afermentans, C. propinquum, C. amycolatum and C. pseudodiphtheriticum strains. Data suggest awareness of clinicians and microbiologists to nosocomial infections especially due to antimicrobial multiresistant strains of Corynebacterium sp.
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Main subject:
Bacterial Infections
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In Vitro Techniques
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Cross Infection
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Corynebacterium
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
South America
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Brazil
Language:
English
Journal:
Braz. j. microbiol
Journal subject:
Microbiology
Year:
2003
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Brazil
Institution/Affiliation country:
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro/BR
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Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro/BR
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