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Investigation of an outbreak of infection with Acinetobacter calcoaceticus in a special care baby unit.

J W Stone, B C Das.   

Abstract

During a period of 6 months, an 'epidemic strain' of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus was isolated from 10 pre-term neonates in a special care baby unit (scbu). Of these, nine had pulmonary infections. The tenth was found to have conjunctival colonization only. The 'epidemic strain' was characterized by serotyping, biotyping, bacteriocin typing and antibiograms. An identical strain was isolated from an 'Ambu' resuscitation device but not from other environmental samples or from staff on the unit. The outbreak ceased after the colonized resuscitator was removed and an appropriate disinfection policy implemented for the replacement resuscitators.

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Year:  1986        PMID： 2870108     DOI： 10.1016/0195-6701(86)90025-3

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  J Hosp Infect        ISSN： 0195-6701            Impact factor:   3.926


  6 in total

Review 1.  Acinetobacter species as nosocomial pathogens.

Authors:  D H Forster; F D Daschner
Journal:  Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis       Date:  1998-02       Impact factor: 3.267

2.  Control of an epidemic spread of a multi-resistant strain of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus in a hospital.

Authors:  W H Crombach; L Dijkshoorn; M van Noort-Klaassen; J Niessen; G van Knippenberg-Gordebeke
Journal:  Intensive Care Med       Date:  1989       Impact factor: 17.440

3.  Characterization of a nosocomial outbreak caused by a multiresistant Acinetobacter baumannii strain with a carbapenem-hydrolyzing enzyme: high-level carbapenem resistance in A. baumannii is not due solely to the presence of beta-lactamases.

Authors:  G Bou; G Cerveró; M A Domínguez; C Quereda; J Martínez-Beltrán
Journal:  J Clin Microbiol       Date:  2000-09       Impact factor: 5.948

4.  Acinetobacter baumannii colonization in ventilated preterm infants.

Authors:  B Nagels; E Ritter; P Thomas; H Schulte-Wissermann; C H Wirsing von König
Journal:  Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis       Date:  1998-01       Impact factor: 3.267

5.  Clinical and epidemiological investigations of Acinetobacter genomospecies 3 in a neonatal intensive care unit.

Authors:  A Horrevorts; K Bergman; L Kollée; I Breuker; I Tjernberg; L Dijkshoorn
Journal:  J Clin Microbiol       Date:  1995-06       Impact factor: 5.948

Review 6.  Guidelines for the management of hospital-acquired pneumonia in the UK: report of the working party on hospital-acquired pneumonia of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.

Authors:  R G Masterton; A Galloway; G French; M Street; J Armstrong; E Brown; J Cleverley; P Dilworth; C Fry; A D Gascoigne; Alan Knox; Dilip Nathwani; Robert Spencer; Mark Wilcox
Journal:  J Antimicrob Chemother       Date:  2008-04-29       Impact factor: 5.790
  6 in total

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