Publications by authors named "Bianca De Oliveira Fonseca"
Objective: to perform a situational diagnosis of the behavior of health professionals concerning hand hygiene practices in highly-complex sectors.
Methods: this quantitative and retrospective study was based on reports (2016 and 2017) of Adult and Pediatric ICUs of a Federal hospital in Rio de Janeiro.
Results: one thousand two hundred fifty-eight opportunities for hand hygiene were analysed.
Detection of multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae isolated from river waters flowing to the Guanabara Bay and from clinical samples of hospitals in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Verônica Dias Gonçalves Frederico Meirelles-Pereira Márcio Cataldo Bianca De Oliveira Fonseca Barbara Araujo Nogueira
Biomedica
May 2019
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates antibiotic resistance in bacteria like Klebsiella pneumoniae and E. coli in water samples from Guanabara Bay, relating both to environmental and clinical samples.
- Researchers employed specific culture media and techniques to isolate strains, determine their resistance profiles, and detect resistance genes for aminoglycosides, beta-lactams, and fluoroquinolones.
- The findings reveal that water samples contained multidrug-resistant bacteria similar to clinical samples, highlighting the importance of monitoring environmental sources of resistance to prevent further spread to humans and animals.