Multidrug-Resistant Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Associated with Bacteremia and Monocyte Evasion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Alice Slotfeldt Viana
1, Ana Maria Nunes Botelho
12, Ahmed M. Moustafa
1, Craig L.K. Boge, Adriana Lucia Pires Ferreira, Maria Cícera da Silva Carvalho, Márcia Aparecida Guimarães, Bruno de Souza Scramignon Costa
3, 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 Figueiredo
4, and Paul J. Planet
4
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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Table 3
Antimicrobial resistance among 600 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2014–2017*
Lineage |
Total |
No. multidrug-resistant isolates, % |
CC5-SCCmecII |
245 |
119 (48.6)† |
CC5-SCCmecIV |
137 |
6 (4.4) |
CC30-SCCmecIV |
109 |
0 |
CC1-SCCmecIV |
79 |
13 (16.5) |
CC30-SCCmecII |
8 |
3 (37.5) |
CC8-SCCmecIII |
7 |
7 (100.0) |
CC45-SCCmecIV |
5 |
0 |
CC45-SCCmecII |
4 |
2 (50.0) |
CC8-SCCmecIV |
4 |
0 |
CC188-SCCmecIV |
1 |
0 |
CC22-SCCmecIV |
1 |
0 |
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