Open AccessContamination of Ambient Air with Acinetobacter baumannii on Consecutive Inpatient Days
Author(s) -
Luis Shimose,
Yohei Doi,
Robert A. Bonomo,
Dennise De Pascale,
Roberto Viau,
Timothy J. Cleary,
Nicholas Namias,
Daniel H. Kett,
L. Silvia Muñoz-Price
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of clinical microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.349
H-Index - 255
eISSN - 1070-633X
pISSN - 0095-1137
DOI - 10.1128/jcm.00198-15
Subject(s) - acinetobacter baumannii , acinetobacter , contamination , medicine , rectum , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , antibiotics , bacteria , pseudomonas aeruginosa , ecology , genetics
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.
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