Lack of seasonality in the occurrence of multidrug-resistant acinectobacter baumannii complex

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1051-1052

  Fukuta, Yuriko ^a   Clarke, Lloyd G ^a   Shields, Ryan K ^a   Wagener, Marilyn M ^b   William Pasculle, A ^b   Doi, Yohei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTION; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPRING; SUMMER; WINTER;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MEDICAL AUDIT; PENNSYLVANIA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEASONS;

EID: 84866166199     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/667741     Document Type: Article

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