Infrequent Air Contamination with Acinetobacter baumannii of Air Surrounding Known Colonized or Infected Patients

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 830-832

  Rock, Clare ^a   Harris, Anthony D ^a   Johnson, J Kristie ^a   Bischoff, Werner E ^b   Thom, Kerri A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST BAPTIST HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOSED CIRCUIT VENTILATOR; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; PNEUMONIA; SPUTUM CULTURE; VENTILATOR; ACINETOBACTER INFECTION; AIR CONDITIONING; HETEROZYGOTE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; CARRIER STATE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MIDDLE AGED; VENTILATION;

EID: 84993949342     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.68     Document Type: Article

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