Outbreak of Acinetobacter baumannii in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Antimicrobial Susceptibility and Genotyping Analysis

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 372-378

  Touati, Arabella ^a   Achour, Wafa ^a   Cherif, Ahmed ^b   Hmida, Hayet Ben ^b   Afif, Firas Bou ^b   Jabnoun, Sami ^b   Khrouf, Naima ^b   Hassen, Assia Ben ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE GREFFE DE MOELLE OSSEUSE   (Tunisia)

^b Centre de Maternite et de Neonatologie Tunis   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Acinetobacter Baumannii; Antimicrobial Resistance; Genotyping; Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; Outbreak

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AZTREONAM; CEFAMANDOLE; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOTETAN; CEFOXITIN; CEFSULODIN; CEFTAZIDIME; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; KANAMYCIN; LATAMOXEF; NETILMICIN; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; STREPTOMYCIN; TICARCILLIN; TIMENTIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTION; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL;

EID: 67349119881     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2009.03.010     Document Type: Article

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