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Volume 27, Number 11—November 2021
Research

Multidrug-Resistant Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Associated with Bacteremia and Monocyte Evasion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Alice Slotfeldt Viana1, Ana Maria Nunes Botelho12, Ahmed M. Moustafa1, Craig L.K. Boge, Adriana Lucia Pires Ferreira, Maria Cícera da Silva Carvalho, Márcia Aparecida Guimarães, Bruno de Souza Scramignon Costa3, Marcos Corrêa de Mattos, Sabrina Pires Maciel, Juliana Echevarria-Lima, Apurva Narechania, Kelsey O’Brien, Chanelle Ryan, Jeffrey S. Gerber, Bernadete Teixeira Ferreira Carvalho, Agnes Marie Sá Figueiredo4, and Paul J. Planet4Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (A.S. Viana, A.M.N. Botelho, A.L.P. Ferreira, M.C.S. Carvalho, M.A. Guimarães, B.S.S. Costa, M.C. Mattos, S.P. Maciel, J. Echevarria-Lima, B.T.F. Carvalho, A.M.S. Figueiredo); Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (A.M. Moustafa, C.L.K. Boge, K. O’Brien, C. Ryan, J.S. Gerber, P.J. Planet); Diagnósticos da América S.A., Duque de Caxias, Brazil (A.L.P. Ferreira); American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA (A. Narechania, P.J. Planet); University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (J.S. Gerber, P.J. Planet)

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Figure 2

Distribution of 600 MRSA isolates by lineage (A), sample type (B), and patient age (C), Rio de Janeiro Brazil, 2014–2017. A) MRSA isolates by lineage (CC-SCCmec type) among 600 isolates. Labels indicate proportions. B) MRSA isolates by sample type. Labels indicate number of isolates. C) MRSA isolates by patient age (data available for 450 patients). Labels indicate number of isolates. BEC, Brazilian endemic clone; CC, clonal complex; EMRSA, epidemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; SCC, staphylococcal cassette chromosome.

Figure 2. Distribution of 600 MRSA isolates by lineage (A), sample type (B), and patient age (C), Rio de Janeiro Brazil, 2014–2017. A) MRSA isolates by lineage (CC-SCCmec type) among 600 isolates. Labels indicate proportions. B) MRSA isolates by sample type. Labels indicate number of isolates. C) MRSA isolates by patient age (data available for 450 patients). Labels indicate number of isolates. BEC, Brazilian endemic clone; CC, clonal complex; EMRSA, epidemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; SCC, staphylococcal cassette chromosome.

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1These first authors contributed equally to this article.

2Current affiliation: Fluminense Federal University, Niteroi, Brazil.

3Current affiliation: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

4These authors were co–principal investigators.

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