A multi-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii outbreak in a general intensive care unit

In Vivo

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 117-122

  Levidiotou, Stamatina ^a   Galanakis, Emmanouil ^a   Vrioni, Georgia ^a   Papamichael, Dimitrios ^a   Nakos, Georgios ^a   Stefanou, Dimitrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acinetobacter baumannii; ICU; Outbreak; RAPD fingerprinting

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; BACTERIAL DNA; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; DOXYCYCLINE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; PENICILLIN G DERIVATIVE; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SULTAMICILLIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG SCREENING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GREECE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BLOOD; CAUSE OF DEATH; GENERAL HOSPITAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; FEMALE; GREECE; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0035984931     PISSN: 0258851X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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