Abstract
Six Salmonella Agona strains from an outbreak of 15 days duration which occurred in a public hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, were analyzed. The outbreak involved six infants (mean age, 24 days; mean body weight, 1612 g), all of them with severe clinical signs and symptoms. Two of them had surgical implications, two were preterm and two had respiratory distress at birth. The Salmonella strains were resistant to nine antimicrobial agents (ampicillin, cephalotin, cefriaxone, gentamicin, amykacin, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, chloramphenicol, and tetracyclin). Analysis of the plasmid pattern of the wild strains and of the transconjugants confirmed that these were identical strains.
Salmonella Agona; hospital infection; outbreak; antimicrobial resistance; plasmid pattern
A Salmonella agona outbreak in a pediatric hospital in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Marise Dutra Asensi1
Claude André Solari2
Ernesto Hofer3
FIOCRUZ, Instituto Fernandes Figueira, Laboratório de Bacteriologia, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 3Laboratório de Bacteriologia, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Laboratório de Bacteriologia, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Six Salmonella Agona strains from an outbreak of 15 days duration which occurred in a public hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, were analyzed. The outbreak involved six infants (mean age, 24 days; mean body weight, 1612 g), all of them with severe clinical signs and symptoms. Two of them had surgical implications, two were preterm and two had respiratory distress at birth. The Salmonella strains were resistant to nine antimicrobial agents (ampicillin, cephalotin, cefriaxone, gentamicin, amykacin, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, chloramphenicol, and tetracyclin). Analysis of the plasmid pattern of the wild strains and of the transconjugants confirmed that these were identical strains.
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