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Microbial investigation of biofilms recovered from endotracheal tubes using sonication in intensive care unit pediatric patients

Overview of attention for article published in Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, August 2016
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Title
Microbial investigation of biofilms recovered from endotracheal tubes using sonication in intensive care unit pediatric patients
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Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, August 2016
DOI 10.1016/j.bjid.2016.07.003
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Thiago de Oliveira Ferreira, Rafael Yoshio Koto, Gabriel Fialkovitz da Costa Leite, Giselle Burlamaqui Klautau, Stanley Nigro, Cely Barreto da Silva, Ana Paula Idalgo da Fonseca Souza, Marcelo Jenne Mimica, Regina Grigolli Cesar, Mauro José Costa Salles

Abstract

To compare cultured microorganisms identified on endotracheal tubes biofilms (ET) through sonication technique with traditional tracheal aspirate (TA) collected at extubation of pediatric intensive care unit (ICU) patients. Demographic and epidemiological data were analyzed to identify factors possibly related with the microbiological profile of the two collection methods. Associations between categorical and continuous variables were analyzed using the chi-square or Fisher's exact test, or Student's t test. p-Value <0.05 were considered significant. Thirty ETs and tracheal aspirates samples from 27 subjects were analyzed. Only one patient presented the clinical diagnosis of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Overall, 50% of bacteria were Gram-negative bacilli, followed by Gram-positive bacteria in 37%, and fungi in 10%. No statistically significant difference on the distribution of Gram-positive or Gram-negative bacteria (p=0.996), and fungi (p=0.985) were observed between the collection methods. Pseudomonas spp. was the most frequent microorganism identified (23.8%), followed by Streptococcus spp. (18.5%), Acinetobacter spp. (15.9%), coagulase-negative staphylococci (11.2%), and Klebsiella spp. (8.6%). Concordant results between methods amounted to 83.3%. Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii showed carbapenem resistance in 50% and 43.7% of the isolates, respectively. In general, cultures after ET sonication (non-centrifuged sonication fluid and centrifuged sonication fluid) yielded bacteria with higher rates of antimicrobial resistance compared to TA cultures. Additionally, in 12 subjects (40%), we observed discrepancies regarding microbiologic profiles of cultures performed using the collection methods. Our study demonstrated that sonication technique can be applied to ET biofilms to identify microorganisms attached to their surface with a great variety of species identified. However, we did not find significant differences in comparison with the traditional tracheal aspirate culture approach.

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Unknown 81 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 13 16%
Researcher 8 10%
Student > Postgraduate 8 10%
Other 5 6%
Student > Master 5 6%
Other 15 19%
Unknown 27 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 27 33%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 5 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 4%
Other 7 9%
Unknown 30 37%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 August 2016.
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#16,061,963
of 25,394,764 outputs
Outputs from Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
#359
of 810 outputs
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#228,802
of 378,635 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
#9
of 25 outputs
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