Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infection, colonization, and transmission related to a long-term care facility providing subacute care

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 406-411

  Mortensen, Eva ^a,b   Trivedi, Kavita K ^c   Rosenberg, Jon ^c   Cody, Sara H ^d   Long, Janet ^e   Jensen, Bette J ^f   Vugia, Duc J ^a  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d Santa Clara County Public Health Department   (United States)

^e John Muir Health   (United States)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTION; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SPUTUM; TRACHEOSTOMY; URINALYSIS; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECTS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOME; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RISK; TRANSMISSION; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALIFORNIA; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES;

EID: 84895828804     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/675612     Document Type: Article

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