Molecular and epidemiologic study of polyclonal outbreaks of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infection in an Israeli hospital

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 945-950

  Marchaim, Dror ^a,b   Navon Venezia, Shiri ^a   Leavitt, Azita ^a   Chmelnitsky, Inna ^a   Schwaber, Mitchell J ^a   Carmeli, Yehuda ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONSULTATION; DATA BASE; DATA EXTRACTION; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PATIENT TRANSPORT; POLYCLONAL OUTBREAK; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TIME; TRANSMISSION OF OPPORTUNITY; WARD;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ADULT; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; ISRAEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34547687538     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/518970     Document Type: Article

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