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Epidemiological investigation after hospitalising a case with pandrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infection.
The Journal of hospital infection - 1 May 2009
Chuang Y-Y, Huang Y-C, Lin C-H, Su L-H, Wu C-T
Abstract excerpt
Pandrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (PDRAB) emerged in Taiwan in the early 2000s but was not identified in the Children's Hospital (Hospital A) until March 2005 when a patient was transferred from a respiratory care hospital (Hospital B). PDRAB was recovered from an eye swab taken on admission; once aware of the culture result, in addition to implementing infection control precautions, an epidemiological...
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