Termination of an extreme-drug resistant-acinetobacter baumannii outbreak in a hospital after flooding: Lessons learned

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1588-1590

  Apisarnthanarak, Anucha ^a   Hsu, Li Yang ^b   Warren, David K ^c  

^a THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (Singapore)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE DERIVATIVE; AZTREONAM; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; HYPOCHLORITE SODIUM; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; SULBACTAM; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; HOST CELL FACTOR C1;

ACINETOBACTER INFECTION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLEANING; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EPIDEMIC; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FLOODING; GLOVE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION CONTROL PRACTITIONER; INFUSION PUMP; LETTER; PATIENT CARE; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESERVOIR; SURGICAL GOWN; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THAILAND; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; DRUG EFFECT; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; TIME;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FLOODS; HOST CELL FACTOR C1; HUMANS; THAILAND; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84869053939     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis726     Document Type: Letter

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