Sepsis-Associated Microorganisms in Brazilian Ambulatories (SAMBA)

At a glance

Project leader : Dr. Fabio Rezzonico, Dr. Theo Smits
Project team : Dr. Marcelo Pillonetto, Dr. Joël Pothier
Project status : completed
Funding partner : Other
Project partner : Microbiology Lab, School of Medicine – Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná – Curitiba-PR, Central Public Health Laboratory – State of Paraná (LACEN/PR) – São José dos Pinhais-PR
Contact person : Theo Smits

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.

Publications

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,

2022.

Resolving taxonomic confusion : establishing the genus Phytobacter on the list of clinically relevant Enterobacteriaceae.

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases.

41(4), pp. 547-558.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10096-022-04413-8
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,

2020.

Phytobacter palmae sp. nov., a novel endophytic, N2 fixing, plant growth promoting Gammaproteobacterium isolated from oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.).

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology.

70(2), pp. 841-848.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003834
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,

2019.

Pseudomonas tructae sp. nov., novel species isolated from rainbow trout kidney.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology.

69(12), pp. 3851-3856.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003696
Smits, Theo H.M.,

2019.

The importance of genome sequence quality to microbial comparative genomics.

BMC Genomics.

20(662).

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-019-6014-5
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,

2018.

Molecular investigation of isolates from a multistate polymicrobial outbreak associated with contaminated total parenteral nutrition in Brazil.

BMC Infectious Diseases.

18(397), pp. 1-11.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-018-3287-2
Pillonetto, Marcelo; Arend, Lavinia N.; Faoro, Helisson; D'Espindula, Helena R. S.; Blom, Jochen; Smits, Theo H. M.; Mira, Marcelo T.; Rezzonico, Fabio,

2018.

Emended description of the genus phytobacter, its type species phytobacter diazotrophicus (Zhang 2008) and description of phytobacter ursingii sp. nov.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology.

68, pp. 176-184.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002477

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