Staphylococcus aureus and CA-MRSA Carriage among Brazilian Indians Living in Peri-Urban Areas and Remote Communities

dc.contributor.authorAbraão, Lígia Maria [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorFortaleza, Carlos Magno Castelo Branco [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorCamargo, Carlos Henrique
dc.contributor.authorBarbosa, Thaís Alves [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorPereira-Franchi, Eliane Patrícia Lino [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorRiboli, Danilo Flávio Moraes [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorHubinger, Luiza [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorBonesso, Mariana Fávero [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorMedeiros de Souza, Rodrigo
dc.contributor.authorRibeiro de Souza da Cunha, Maria de Lourdes [UNESP]
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
dc.contributor.institutionHospital Samaritano Higienopolis
dc.contributor.institutionAdolfo Lutz Institute—IAL
dc.contributor.institutionFederal University of Acre—UFAC
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-29T13:56:33Z
dc.date.available2023-07-29T13:56:33Z
dc.date.issued2023-05-01
dc.description.abstractThe emergence of Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infections among indigenous populations has been reported. Usually, indigenous communities live in extreme poverty and are at risk of acquiring infections. In Brazil, healthcare inequality is observed in this population. To date, there are no reports of CA-MRSA infections, and no active search for asymptomatic S. aureus carriage has been conducted among Brazilian Indians. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of colonization with S. aureus and CA-MRSA among Brazilian Indians. We screened 400 Indians (from near urban areas and remote hamlets) for S. aureus and CA-MRSA colonization. The isolates were submitted to clonal profiling by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), and selected isolates were submitted to multilocus sequence typing (MLST). Among 931 specimens (nasal and oral) from different indigenous individuals in remote hamlets, S. aureus was cultured in 190 (47.6%). Furthermore, CA-MRSA was found in three isolates (0.7%), all SCCmec type IV. PFGE analysis identified 21 clusters among the S. aureus isolates, and MLST analysis showed a predominance of sequence type 5 among these isolates. Our study revealed a higher prevalence of S. aureus carriage among Shanenawa ethnicity individuals (41.1%). Therefore, ethnicity appears to be associated with the prevalence of S. aureus in these populations.en
dc.description.affiliationDepartment of Infectology Dermatology Diagnostic Imaging and Radiotherapy Medical School (FMB) Sao Paulo State University (UNESP)
dc.description.affiliationNursing Research and Care Practices Hospital Samaritano Higienopolis
dc.description.affiliationCenter of Bacteriology Adolfo Lutz Institute—IAL
dc.description.affiliationDepartment of Chemical and Biological Sciences Biosciences Institute UNESP—Universidade Estadual Paulista
dc.description.affiliationDepartment of Nursing Federal University of Acre—UFAC
dc.description.affiliationUnespDepartment of Infectology Dermatology Diagnostic Imaging and Radiotherapy Medical School (FMB) Sao Paulo State University (UNESP)
dc.description.affiliationUnespDepartment of Chemical and Biological Sciences Biosciences Institute UNESP—Universidade Estadual Paulista
dc.description.sponsorshipCoordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
dc.description.sponsorshipConselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
dc.description.sponsorshipIdCAPES: 110938-3
dc.description.sponsorshipIdCNPq: 303603/2020-8
dc.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics12050862
dc.identifier.citationAntibiotics, v. 12, n. 5, 2023.
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/antibiotics12050862
dc.identifier.issn2079-6382
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85160323819
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/248889
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofAntibiotics
dc.sourceScopus
dc.subjectbrazilian indians
dc.subjectCA-MRSA
dc.subjectcolonization
dc.subjectethnicity
dc.subjectremote communities
dc.subjectStaphylococcus aureus
dc.titleStaphylococcus aureus and CA-MRSA Carriage among Brazilian Indians Living in Peri-Urban Areas and Remote Communitiesen
dc.typeArtigo
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unesp.author.orcid0000-0001-7377-7652[7]
unesp.author.orcid0000-0002-7775-6901[9]
unesp.author.orcid0000-0001-9079-2723[10]

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