Citywide clonal outbreak of multiresistant Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Brooklyn, NY: the preantibiotic era has returned

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Approximately 400 patients were infected or colonized with carbapenem-resistant A baumannii and P aeruginosa during a 3-month period in 1999. A few strains have spread widely throughout hospitals in this region. The prevalence of resistant A baumannii seems to be correlated with cephalosporin use. M …
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Authors Landman D;Quale JM;Mayorga D;Adedeji A;Vangala K;Ravishankar J;Flores C;Brooks S;;
Journal archives of internal medicine
Year 2002
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National Center for Biotechnology Information NCBI NLM MEDLINE humans pubmed abstract nih national institutes of health national library of medicine research support non-u.s. gov't Multicenter Study Incidence drug resistance multiple microbial sensitivity tests microbial pseudomonas infections / drug therapy* disease outbreaks* pseudomonas infections / microbiology* new york / epidemiology pseudomonas aeruginosa / drug effects ribotyping acinetobacter / genetics* carbapenems / therapeutic use pmid:12090889 doi:10.1001/archinte.162.13.1515 david landman john m quale steven brooks acinetobacter / drug effects acinetobacter / isolation & purification* acinetobacter infections / drug therapy* acinetobacter infections / microbiology* dna fingerprinting pseudomonas aeruginosa / genetics* pseudomonas aeruginosa / isolation & purification*

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