Control of an outbreak of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii-calcoaceticus colonization and infection in an intensive care unit (ICU) without closing the ICU or placing patients in isolation

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 654-658

  Wilks, Mark ^a   Wilson, Anne ^a   Warwick, Simon ^a   Price, Elizabeth ^a   Kennedy, Daniel ^a   Ely, Andrew ^a   Millar, Michael R ^a,b  

^a BARTS HEALTH NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; CARBAPENEM; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SULTAMICILLIN; TAZOBACTAM; TIGECYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER CALCOACETICUS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PATIENT CARE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED KINGDOM; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LONDON; PATIENT ISOLATION;

EID: 33747656337     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/507011     Document Type: Article

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