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Investigation of Acinetobacter baumannii Outbreak in a Burn Unit Revealed a Surprising Environmental Source

We describe an outbreak of Acinetobacter baumannii in a 15-bed regional burn unit in an academic tertiary care medical center, and the investigations and control measures used to halt the outbreak are described. Nine cases of A. baumannii were reported in our burn unit in a one-year period, which wa...

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Autores principales: Mada, Pradeep Kumar, Alam, Mohammed J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10476506/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37671205
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.42984