title: Dissemination of Acinetobacter nosocomialis clone among critically ill patients and the environment.
abstract: We examined the environmental dissemination of Acinetobacter nosocomialis multilocus sequence typing clonal complex 260/71 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, including water from a dam and food samples. The increasing use of sequence based methods has demonstrated a large, previously unpredicted, dissemination of bacteria that may serve as opportunistic pathogens.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
authors.forename: Valéria Brígido
authors.initials: VB
authors.lastname: de Carvalho Girão
authors.forename: Natacha
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Martins
authors.forename: Luciana Camila
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Cacci
authors.forename: Talita
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Coelho-Souza
authors.forename: Simone Aranha
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Nouér
authors.forename: Lee W
authors.initials: LW
authors.lastname: Riley
authors.forename: Beatriz Meurer
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Moreira
mesh_terms: D000150:Acinetobacter / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D000151:Acinetobacter Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D016638:Critical Illness; D005516:Food Microbiology; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D017720:Molecular Epidemiology; D058885:Multilocus Sequence Typing; D014871:Water Microbiology