This study analyzes the genomic findings of the first report of Salmonella isolate carrying the blaCTX-M-55 gene, recovered from a bacteremic patient from Brazil. A bacterial isolate positive for the blaCTX-M-55 gene was submitted to antimicrobial susceptibility testing by disk diffusion and epsilometric...
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), a mosquito-borne alphavirus, has traditionally circulated in Africa and Asia, causing human febrile illness accompanied by severe, chronic joint pain. The Asian and East-Central-South African (ECSA) genotypes were introduced in Brazil in 2014, in Bahia State and Northeast regio...
Isolates of the Mycobacterium chelonae-M. abscessus complex are subdivided into
four clusters (CHI to CHIV) in the INNO-LiPA® Mycobacterium spp DNA strip assay.
A considerable phenotypic variability was observed among isolates of the CHII cluster.
In this study, we examined the diversity of 26 CHII clus...
