"Airborne assault": A new dimension in Acinetobacter baumannii transmission

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2042-2044

  Spellberg, Brad ^a,b   Bonomo, Robert A ^c  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acinetobacter baumannii; Airborne colonization; Environmental colonization; Infection prevention; Transmission of infection

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTION; AIRBORNE INFECTION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; TRAUMA CENTERS;

EID: 84880937394     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31829136c3     Document Type: Editorial

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