The Laboratory of Applied Bacteriology to Unique Health and Antimicrobial Resistance (LabSUR) of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) operates in research, teaching, technological development and scientific dissemination related to the topic of bacteriology applied to unique health, with an emphasis on antimicrobial resistance. 

It is a National Reference for Anthrax and for Research into Hospital Infections. It houses the Collection of Cultures of Bacteria of Hospital Origin (CCBH) and Cultures of the Genus Bacillus and Related Genres (CCGB) of the IOC.

LabSUR develops studies related to 15 lines of research:

1. Molecular study of antimicrobial resistance mechanisms and genetic diversity of bacteria involved in healthcare-associated infections;

2. Evaluation of the impact related to microbial resistance in the post-Covid-19 pandemic scenario;

3. Evaluation of the role of different samples of aquatic matrices under various anthropogenic influences including community sewage, hospital sewage, recreational coastal water, water from rivers that cut through animal and vegetable production properties dedicated to the production of food distributed in the State of Rio de Janeiro in the spread of resistance genes

4. Study of AMR in wild and agricultural animals;

5. Genomic analysis of the ab resistance mechanismiocantimicrobial actions on pathogenic bacteria present in hospital and food processing environments;

6. Study of mobilization of resistance genes through research and characterization of mobile genetic elements;

7. Mathematical modeling of antibiotic-resistant bacteria;

8. Immunotherapies for the treatment of infections caused by Acinetobacter baumannii;

9. Genotypic and biochemical characterization of antimicrobial resistance mechanisms;

10. Bioactive molecules from the human microbiota as tools to combat antimicrobial resistance;

11. Collection, identification (biochemical, physiological, cytomorphological and molecular) and characterization Bacillus entomo and enteropathogens and related genera;

12. Genotypic characterization and evaluation of antimicrobial resistance, virulence factors and biofilm production of strains of Bacillus cereus sensu lato of food and clinical origin isolated in Brazil;

13. Study of bacteria of the genus Bacillus and related genera in Antarctic environments;

14. Prospection, isolation and phenotypic and genotypic characterization of Bacillus anthracis e B. anthracis-like in Brazil;

15. Impact of natural variation of protein sequences in the identification of therapeutic targets for the treatment of Chagas disease.

The Laboratory of Bacteriology Applied to Single Health and Antimicrobial Resistance, accredited for the period 2023-2028, is the result of the merger of the Laboratories of Research in Hospital Infection and Bacterial Physiology.

Head of the Laboratory of Applied Bacteriology to Single Health and Antimicrobial Resistance 
Ana Paula D'Alincourt Carvalho Assef (Curriculum lattes) 

Deputy Head of the Laboratory of Applied Bacteriology to Single Health and Antimicrobial Resistance 
Claudio Marcos Rocha de Souza (Curriculum lattes)