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Pheno- and genotypic characterization of Listeria monocytogenes clinical isolates from the southwestern region of the State of São Paulo, Brazil
Considering the lack of information available in Brazil concerning listeriosis, the present study aimed to analyze phenotypic and genotypically Listeria monocytogenes clinical isolates from the Southwestern region of the State of São Paulo, Brazil. From January 1995 to May 2005, thirteen isolates of...
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Published in: | Brazilian journal of microbiology 2007-06, Vol.38 (2), p.287-292 |
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Summary: | Considering the lack of information available in Brazil concerning listeriosis, the present study aimed to analyze phenotypic and genotypically Listeria monocytogenes clinical isolates from the Southwestern region of the State of São Paulo, Brazil. From January 1995 to May 2005, thirteen isolates of L. monocytogenes from twelve patients with listeriosis were sent to the Adolfo Lutz Institute (Campinas Regional Laboratory, São Paulo, Brazil). The antimicrobial susceptibility of the isolates was evaluated by the microdilution broth method for ampicillin, gentamicin, trimethoprim, sulfamethoxazole and vancomycin. They were also serotyped (Denka Seiken, Japan), and sub-typed by PFGE employing ApaI and AscI and the American CDC protocol. None of the isolates showed resistance to the antibiotics tested; however, seven of them presented increased values for sulfamethoxazole MICs. Ten isolates belonged to serotype 4b, two to serotype 1/2a and only one to serotype 1/2b. After digestion with ApaI and AscI, the strains were distributed in 3 different groups according to their profile. It was observed that the spatial or temporally unrelated strains exhibited similar PFGE profiles, indicating a possible clonal relationship among them.
No Brasil, dados sobre a ocorrência de surtos ou casos esporádicos de listeriose são raros, assim como estudos que tratem da caracterização de cepas de L. monocytogenes isoladas destes episódios. Desta forma, o presente estudo teve por objetivo avaliar feno e genotipicamente 13 cepas de Listeria monocytogenes isoladas de 12 casos clínicos de listeriose ocorridos em 6 municípios da região sudoeste do Estado de São Paulo, Brasil, no período de janeiro de 1995 a maio de 2005. As cepas foram submetidas ao teste de sensibilidade a cinco antimicrobianos (ampicilina, gentamicina, trimetoprim, sulfametoxazol e vancomicina) pelo método de microdiluição em caldo; à sorotipagem (Denka Seiken, Japão) e à determinação do perfil de macro-restrição por eletroforese em campo pulsado (PFGE, Pulsenet, CDC, USA, 2001). Nenhuma das cepas foi resistente aos antimicrobianos testados; entretanto, sete tiveram valores da CIM aumentados para o sulfametoxazol. Dez cepas pertenciam ao sorotipo 4b, duas ao sorotipo 1/2a e apenas uma ao sorotipo 1/2b. Com o emprego da técnica de PFGE e as enzimas Apa I e Asc I as cepas foram separadas em três grupos diferentes, de acordo com seus perfis moleculares. É interessante destacar que cepas não relacionadas (temporal ou esp |
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ISSN: | 1517-8382 1678-4405 1678-4405 |
DOI: | 10.1590/S1517-83822007000200019 |