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Provedor de dados: 	Brazilian Journal of Microbiology	
País: 	Brazil	
Título: 	Antimicrobial susceptibility among Enterococcus isolates from the city of Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil	
Autores: 	d'Azevedo,Pedro Alves; Dias,Cícero Armídio Gomes; Lemos,Sibele Krebs; Bittencourt,José Augusto Ferreira; Teixeira,Lúcia Martins.	
Data: 	2004-09-01	
Ano: 	2004	
Palavras-chave: 	Enterococcal; Antimicrobial susceptibility; Resistance.	
Resumo: 	Resistance to several classes of antimicrobial agents is a remarkable characteristic of enterococcal strains increasingly reported worldwide. Information about strains isolated in the southern region of Brazil is still limited. In this study, a total of 455 consecutive enterococcal isolates recovered from patients living in Porto Alegre, Brazil, were identified at species level and evaluated for their antimicrobial susceptibilities by agar diffusion testing. The most frequent species was E. faecalis (92.8%), followed by E. faecium (2.9%), E. gallinarum (1.5%), E. avium (1.1%), E. hirae (0.7%), E. casseliflavus (0.4%), E. durans (0.4%), and E. raffinosus (0.2%). According to the results of disk tests 62.0% of the strains were resistant to tetracycline, 42.6% to erythromycin, 24.8% to chloramphenicol, 22.6% to ciprofloxacin, 22.0% to norfloxacin, 3.5% to ampicillin, 3.5% to nitrofurantoin. High level resistance to aminoglycosides was found in 37.8% of the isolates, with 23.5% being resistant to gentamicin, 14.3% to streptomycin, and 2.8% to both gentamicin and streptomycin. No vancomycin resistant or b-lactamase producing isolates were found. The results indicate that a significant percentage of isolates are resistant to different antimicrobials, pointing out the need for control strategies to avoid dissemination of resistant isolates and for continuous surveillance for the detection of emerging resistance traits.	
Tipo: 	Info:eu-repo/semantics/article	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822004000200005	
Editor: 	Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia	
Relação: 	10.1590/S1517-83822004000200005	
Formato: 	text/html	
Fonte: 	Brazilian Journal of Microbiology  v.35 n.3 2004	
Fonte: 	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess