Browsing by Subject "outbreak"

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    • Emerging sporotrichosis is driven by clonal and recombinant Sporothrix species 

      Rodrigues, Anderson Messias [UNIFESP]; Sybren de Hoog, G.; Zhang, Yu; Camargo, Zoilo Pires de [UNIFESP] (Nature Publishing Group, 2014-05-07)
      Sporotrichosis, caused by agents of the fungal genus Sporothrix, occurs worldwide, but the infectious species are not evenly distributed. Sporothrix propagules usually gain entry into the warm-blooded host through minor ...

    • Enviromnental contamination during a vancomycin-resistant Enterococci outbreak at a hospital in Argentina 

      Zarate, Mariela Soledad; Gales, Ana [UNIFESP]; Jordd-Vargas, L'fiana; Yahni, Diego; RelloSo, Silvia; Bonvehi, Pablo; Monteiro, Jussimara [UNIFESP]; Campos-Pignatari, Antonio [UNIFESP]; Smayevsky, Jorgelina [UNIFESP] (Ediciones Doyma S/l, 2007-10-01)
      INTRODUCTION. Vancomycin-resistant enterococci isolates (VRE) have caused numerous outbreaks in intensive care units (ICUs). A contaminated hospital environment, the hands of health care workers (HCW), and carrier patients ...

    • Epidemic of surgical-site infections by a single clone of rapidly growing mycobacteria in Brazil 

      Leao, Sylvia Cardoso [UNIFESP]; Viana-Niero, Cristina; Matsumoto, Cristianne Kayoko; Batista Lima, Karla Valeria; Lopes, Maria Luiza; Palaci, Moises; Hadad, David Jamil; Vinhas, Solange; Duarte, Rafael Silva; Silva Lourenco, Maria Cristina; Kipnis, Andre; das Neves, Zilah Candida; Alcantara Gabardo, Betina Mendez; Ribeiro, Marta Osorio; Baethgen, Ludmila; Assis, Denise Brandao de; Madalosso, Geraldine; Chimara, Erica; Dalcolmo, Margareth Pretti (Future Medicine Ltd, 2010-06-01)
      Aim: Our aim is to investigate if the clusters of postsurgical mycobacterial infections, reported between 2004 and 2008 in seven geographically distant states in Brazil, were caused by a single mycobacterial strain. Materials ...

    • Genomic epidemiology of a national outbreak of post-surgical Mycobacterium abscessus wound infections in Brazil 

      Everall, Izzy; Nogueira, Christiane Lourenco [UNIFESP]; Bryant, Josephine M.; Sanchez-Buso, Leonor; Chimara, Erica; Duarte, Rafael da Silva; Ramos, Jesus Pais; Batista Lima, Karla Valeria; Lopes, Maria Luiza; Palaci, Moises; Kipnis, Andre; Monego, Fernanda; Andres Floto, R.; Parkhill, Julian; Leao, Sylvia Cardoso [UNIFESP]; Harris, Simon R. (Microbiology Soc, 2017)
      An epidemic of post-surgical wound infections, caused by a non-tuberculous mycobacterium, has been on-going in Brazil. It has been unclear whether one or multiple lineages are responsible and whether their wide geographical ...

    • Outbreak of surgical infection caused by non-tuberculous mycobacteria in breast implants in Brazil 

      Padoveze, M. C.; Fortaleza, C. M. C. B.; Freire, M. P.; Assis, D. Brandao de; Madalosso, G.; Pellini, A. C. G.; Cesar, M. L. V.; Neto, V. Pisani; Beltramelli, M. M.; Chimara, E.; Ferrazoli, L.; Silva Telles, M. A. da; Sampaio, J. L. M.; Leao, S. C. (W B Saunders Co Ltd, 2007-10-01)
      We investigated an outbreak caused by non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) related to breast implant surgery in the city of Campinas, Brazil, by means of a retrospective cohort and molecular epidemiological study. A total ...