Contamination of ambient air with Acinetobacter baumannii on consecutive inpatient days

Luis A. Shimose; Yohei Doi; Robert A. Bonomo; Dennise De Pascale; Roberto A. Viau; Timothy Cleary; Nicholas Namias; Daniel H. Kett; L. Silvia Munoz-Price

doi:10.1128/JCM.00198-15

Contamination of ambient air with Acinetobacter baumannii on consecutive inpatient days

Luis A. Shimose, Yohei Doi, Robert A. Bonomo, Dennise De Pascale, Roberto A. Viau, Timothy Cleary, Nicholas Namias, Daniel H. Kett, L. Silvia Munoz-Price

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Abstract

Acinetobacter-positive patients had their ambient air tested for up to 10 consecutive days. The air was Acinetobacter positive for an average of 21% of the days; the rate of contamination was higher among patients colonized in the rectum than in the airways (relative risk [RR], 2.35; P = 0.006). Of the 6 air/clinical isolate pairs available, 4 pairs were closely related according to rep-PCR results.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2346-2348
Number of pages	3
Journal	Journal of clinical microbiology
Volume	53
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00198-15
Publication status	Published - 01-07-2015
Externally published	Yes

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Contamination of ambient air with Acinetobacter baumannii on consecutive inpatient days

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