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Control of Acinetobacter Outbreaks with Oral Polymyxin

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Infection in the Critically Ill: an Ongoing Challenge

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Abstract

Acinetobacter (A.) baumannii has emerged in recent years as an important nosocomial pathogen, both because it frequently causes severe infections [1, 2] with multidrug-resistant strains [3–8], and because it is involved in multiple epidemic outbreaks in intensive care units (ICU) [9–13] and general hospital wards [4, 10, 14, 15]. In spite of intense efforts to control and prevent colonization and infection, A. baumannii has become endemic in ICU in Spain [10, 16–18] and many other countries [2–4, 8, 9, 15, 19–21].

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  1. Department of Clinical Microbiology/Infection Control, Royal Liverpool Children’s NHS, Liverpool, UK

    H. K. F. van Saene

  2. Department of Surgery/Division of Organ Transplantation, Catholic University, University Hospital Agostino Gemelli and CNR Centro Studi Fisiopatologia Shock, Rome, Italy

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  3. Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Gorizia Hospital, Gorizia, Italy

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Sánchez, M., Álvarez, M. (2001). Control of Acinetobacter Outbreaks with Oral Polymyxin. In: van Saene, H.K.F., Sganga, G., Silvestri, L. (eds) Infection in the Critically Ill: an Ongoing Challenge. Topics in Anaesthesia and Critical Care. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2242-3_15

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