First occurrence of blaOXA-58 in Acinetobacter baumannii isolated from a clinical sample in Southern Brazil

This is the first report of an Acinetobacter baumannii from clinical origin carrying the blaOXA-58 gene in Brazil. The isolate included in this study was from a patient during an outbreak in Porto Alegre, RS, Southern Brazil, in 2007. It was resistant to most of the beta-lactams tested, it has also the blaOXA-65 gene and the ISAba1 sequence located upstream to both blaOXA genes detected and it has a MIC of imipenem of 64 g/mL.

Spread of Metallo--lactamases: screening reveals the presence of a BLA SPM-1 gene in hospital sewage in southern Brazil

Of 396 Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated from hospital sewage, the blaSPM-1 gene was confirmed in nine. This is the first report of environmental P. aeruginosa strains carrying the blaSPM-1 gene in Brazil. The carbapenem resistance, already disseminated among clinical isolates, has been detected among environmental isolates.

Ao todo, 396 isolados de Pseudomonas aeruginosa foram estudados. O gene blaSPM-1 foi encontrado em nove isolados de efluente hospitalar. Este estudo é o primeiro relato de isolados ambientais de P. aeruginosa com o gene blaSPM-1no Brasil. A resistência aos carbapenêmicos, amplamente disseminada entre isolados clínicos, já é detectada em isolados ambientais.