Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo (Jul 2018)

Disseminated Clonal Complex 5 (CC5) methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus SCCmec type II in a tertiary hospital of Southern Brazil

  • Felipe Crepaldi Duarte,
  • Eliandro Reis Tavares,
  • Tiago Danelli,
  • Maria Alice Galvão Ribeiro,
  • Lucy Megumi Yamauchi,
  • Sueli Fumie Yamada-Ogatta,
  • Marcia Regina Eches Perugini

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/s1678-9946201860032
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 60, no. 0

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ABSTRACT Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is one of the leading causes of human infections worldwide, with major dominant lineage circulating in particular geographical regions. The Brazilian Epidemic Clone (BEC, SCCmec III, ST 239) has been predominant in most Brazilian hospitals. Here, we report the prevalence of MRSA SCCmec type II exhibiting different STs, most of them belonging to CC5 in a tertiary hospital in Southern Brazil.

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