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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