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SUBMITTER: de Araujo CF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4914687 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
de Araujo Carlos Felipe Machado CF Silva Dalton Marcondes DM Carneiro Marcos Tavares MT Ribeiro Sthefanie S Fontana-Maurell Marcela M Alvarez Patricia P Asensi Marise Dutra MD Zahner Viviane V Carvalho-Assef Ana Paula D'Alincourt AP
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20160620 7
This study reveals the presence of different carbapenemase genes (blaKPC, blaNDM, blaGES, and blaOXA48-like genes) detected directly from water samples and clonal dispersion (by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis [PFGE] and multilocus sequence typing [MLST]) of KPC-2-producing Enterobacteriaceae in two important urban aquatic matrixes from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, highlighting the role of aquatic environments as gene pools and the possibility of community spreading. ...[more]