Multidrug-resistant acinetobacter baumannii infections in three returning travelers evacuated from Algeria, Thailand, and Turkey after hospitalization in local intensive care units

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 358-360

  Hussenet, Claire ^a   Jauréguiberry, Stéphane ^a   Robert, Jerôme ^a   Rouby, Jean Jacques ^b   Bricaire, François ^a   Caumes, Eric ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; COLISTIN; CORTICOSTEROID; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; RIFAMPICIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TOBRAMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN;

ACCIDENTAL INJURY; ACINETOBACTER INFECTION; ADULT; AGED; ALGERIA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTHRODESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; DYSAUTONOMIA; FEMALE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HEMATOPNEUMOTHORAX; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; SEPTICEMIA; THAILAND; THORAX DRAINAGE; TRAVEL; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGERIA; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRANCE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; THAILAND; TRAVEL; TURKEY;

EID: 80052472098     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2011.00546.x     Document Type: Article

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