Patient-to-Patient Transmission of Acinetobacter baumannii Gastrointestinal Colonization in the Intensive Care Unit-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Patient-to-Patient Transmission of Acinetobacter baumannii Gastrointestinal Colonization in the Intensive Care Unit

Published:2019-08 Issue:8 Volume:63 Page:
ISSN:0066-4804
Container-title:Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
language:en
Short-container-title:Antimicrob Agents Chemother

Author:

Harris Anthony D.¹,Johnson J. Kristie¹²,Pineles Lisa¹,O’Hara Lyndsay M.¹,Bonomo Robert A.³⁴⁵⁶⁷,Thom Kerri A.¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

2. Department of Pathology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

3. Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Medical Service, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

4. Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

5. Department of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

6. Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

7. Department of Biochemistry, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Abstract

Acinetobacter baumannii is an important nosocomial pathogen. The objective of this study was to determine the proportion of A. baumannii infections due to patient-to-patient transmission by analyzing the molecular epidemiology of patients who acquired A. baumannii , using perianal surveillance cultures in a large 2-year intensive care unit (ICU) population.

Funder

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

HHS | NIH | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development, VA Office of Research and Development

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Pharmacology (medical),Pharmacology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/AAC.00392-19

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