Sepsis-Associated Microorganisms in Brazilian Ambulatories (SAMBA)
Description
Fifty-six cases of bloodstream infections caused by contaminated total parenteral nutrition were recorded between November 2013 and July 2014 in four Brazilian states resulting in 15 deaths. One of the bacteria involved, albeit repeatedly causing similar outbreaks, is habitually misidentified in clinical diagnostics and still poorly characterized. The aim of this project is to fill this significant knowledge gap and to design diagnostic tools for routine detection of this pathogen, raising at the same time the awareness of its potential hazards in the medical field.
Key data
Projectlead
Project team
Dr. Joël Pothier, Dr. Marcelo Pillonetto
Project partners
Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná / Microbiology Lab, School of Medicine; Central Public Health Laboratory / State of Paraná
Project status
completed, 01/2016 - 12/2016
Institute/Centre
Institute of Natural Resource Sciences (IUNR)
Funding partner
Other
Publications
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Construction of a SuperSpectrum for rapid identification of opportunistic human pathogens belonging to the genus Phytobacter using whole-cell MALDI-TOF MS
2026 Mazzetti, Alana; D’Espindula, Helena R. S.; Kulek, Debora O.; Jones, Karen L.; Kraft, Letícia; Smits, Theo H. M.; Rezzonico, Fabio; Mira, Marcelo Távora; Pillonetto, Marcelo
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"Citrobacter bitternis" Ko et al., 2015 and "Kluyvera intestini" Tetz and Tetz, 2016 are heterotypic synonyms of Phytobacter diazotrophicus Zhang et al., 2017
2025 Rezzonico, Fabio; Smits, Theo H. M.
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Development of two quantitative PCR assays for the detection of emerging opportunistic human pathogens belonging to the genus Phytobacter in routine diagnostics
2024 Michel, Isabelle R.; Kulek, Débora; Arend, Lavinia N.V.S.; Pillonetto, Marcelo; Smits, Theo H.M.; Rezzonico, Fabio
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Resolving taxonomic confusion : establishing the genus Phytobacter on the list of clinically relevant Enterobacteriaceae
2022 Smits, Theo H. M.; Arend, Lavinia N. V. S.; Cardew, Sofia; Tång-Hallbäck, Erika; Mira, Marcelo T.; Moore, Edward R. B.; Sampaio, Jorge L. M.; Rezzonico, Fabio; Pillonetto, Marcelo
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Phytobacter palmae sp. nov., a novel endophytic, N2 fixing, plant growth promoting Gammaproteobacterium isolated from oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.)
2020 Madhaiyan, Munusamy; Saravanan, Venkatakrishnan Sivaraj; Blom, Jochen; Smits, Theo; Rezzonico, Fabio; Kim, Soo-Jin; Weon, Hang-Yeon; Kwon, Soon-Wo; Whitman, William B.; Ji, Lianghui
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The importance of genome sequence quality to microbial comparative genomics
2019 Smits, Theo H.M.
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Pseudomonas tructae sp. nov., novel species isolated from rainbow trout kidney
2019 Oh, Woo Taek; Jun, Jin Woo; Giri, Sib Sankar; Yun, Saekil; Kim, Hyoun Joong; Kim, Sang Guen; Kim, Sang Wha; Kang, Jeong Woo; Han, Se Jin; Kwon, Jun; Kim, Ji Hyung; Smits, Theo H.M.; Park, Se Chang
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Molecular investigation of isolates from a multistate polymicrobial outbreak associated with contaminated total parenteral nutrition in Brazil
2018 Pillonetto, Marcelo; Arend, Lavinia; Gomes, Suzie M. T.; Oliveira, Marluce A. A.; Timm, Loeci N.; Martins, Andreza F.; Barth, Afonso L.; Mazzetti, Alana; Hersemann, Lena; Smits, Theo H. M.; Mira, Marcelo T.; Rezzonico, Fabio
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Emended description of the genus phytobacter, its type species phytobacter diazotrophicus (Zhang 2008) and description of phytobacter ursingii sp. nov
2018 Pillonetto, Marcelo; Arend, Lavinia N.; Faoro, Helisson; D'Espindula, Helena R. S.; Blom, Jochen; Smits, Theo H. M.; Mira, Marcelo T.; Rezzonico, Fabio
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