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Pandrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii causing nosocomial infections in a university hospital, Taiwan.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Aug 2002
Hsueh Po-Ren, Teng Lee-Jene, Chen Cheng-Yi, Chen Wen-Hwei, Yu Chong-Jen, Ho Shen-Wu, Luh Kwen-Tay
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The rapid emergence (from 0% before 1998 to 6.5% in 2000) of pandrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (PDRAB) was noted in a university hospital in Taiwan. To understand the epidemiology of these isolates, we studied 203 PDRAB isolates, taken from January 1999 to April 2000: 199 from 73 hospitalized patients treated at different clinical settings in the hospital and 4 from environmental sites in an...
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