Infrequent air contamination with Acinetobacter baumannii of air surrounding known colonized or infected patients. - PubMed - NCBI

Infrequent air contamination with Acinetobacter baumannii of air surrounding known colonized or infected patients. - PubMed - NCBI

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2015 Jul;36(7):830-2. doi: 10.1017/ice.2015.68. Epub 2015 Mar 31.

Infrequent air contamination with Acinetobacter baumannii of air surrounding known colonized or infected patients.

Rock C1, Harris AD1, Johnson JK2, Bischoff WE3, Thom KA1.

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Abstract

Using a validated air sampling method we found Acinetobacter baumannii in the air surrounding only 1 of 12 patients known to be colonized or infected with A. baumannii. Patients' closed-circuit ventilator status, frequent air exchanges in patient rooms, and short sampling time may have contributed to this low burden.

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• Acinetobacter in the air: did Maryland get it wrong? [Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2015]

PMID:

 

25825865

 

PMCID:

 

PMC4686262

 

DOI:

 

10.1017/ice.2015.68

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