Genomic features of a clinical ESBL-producing and colistin-resistant hypermucoviscous K. quasipneumoniae subsp. similipneumoniae from Brazil

Infections and antimicrobial resistance in an adult intensive care unit in a Brazilian hospital and the influence of drug resistance on the thirty-day mortality among patients with bloodstream infections

“…The increase in antibiotic resistance is a persistent issue. Compared with Europe and the United States, Brazil and other Latin American countries have higher levels of antimicrobial resistance in non-fermentative gram-negative bacilli (GNB) and Enterobacteriaceae producing extended-spectrum β-lactamase, as well as in some gram-positive organisms (including Staphylococcus aureus) 7,8,9 .…”