| Literature DB >> 12971564 |
Nalini Mittal1, Deepthi Nair, Neera Gupta, Deepti Rawat, S Kabra, Surinder Kumar, S Krishna Prakash, V K Sharma.
Abstract
An outbreak of Acinetobacter spp infection in the neonatal unit at Lok Nayak Hospital, New Delhi, India, is described. During a 6-month period, 68 strains of Acinetobacter baumannii were isolated from the blood and CSF of 47 neonates admitted to the intensive care unit. Diagnosis of clinically significant bacteremia was made in 36 patients. On environmental/personnel sampling, Acinetobacter spp isolates with similar antibiogram were recovered from intravenous catheter and washbasin. Control of the outbreak was possible only after strict infection control practices in the unit. It was concluded that any clinical multidrug resistant A. baumannii isolate can be a potential nosocomial outbreak strain.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID： 12971564
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health ISSN： 0125-1562 Impact factor: 0.267