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REVISTA DA SOCIEDADE BRASILEIRA DE MEDICINA TROPICAL
Volume 52, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
SOC BRASILEIRA MEDICINA TROPICAL
DOI: 10.1590/0037-8682-0348-2018
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NDM-1; Multidrug resistance; Acinetobacter pittii
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- Universidade da Regiao de Joinville (FAP/UNIVILLE)
- Support Fund for the Maintenance and Development of Higher Education in Santa Catarina (FUMDES/SC)
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We report the occurrence in Brazil of the bla(NDM-1) gene in Acinetobacter pittii, prior to the previously described first reports regarding the species Providencia rettgeri and Enterobacter hormaechei. Clinical isolates were investigated by polymerase chain reaction followed by bidirectional sequencing, and species was confirmed by 16S rDNA sequencing and matrix-assisted laser desorption-ionization time-of-flight spectrometry. A. pittii carrying bla(NDM-1) was confirmed in a patient with no national or international travel history, or transfer from another hospital. The findings warn of the possibility of silent spread of bla(NDM-1) to the community.
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