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Infrequent Air Contamination With Acinetobacter baumannii of Air Surrounding Known Colonized or Infected Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2015

Clare Rock ,
Anthony D. Harris ,
J. Kristie Johnson ,
Werner E. Bischoff  and
Kerri A. Thom
Clare Rock*
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland
Anthony D. Harris
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland
J. Kristie Johnson
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland
Werner E. Bischoff
Affiliation:
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Kerri A. Thom
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland
*
Address correspondence to Clare Rock, MD, MS, Division of Infectious Diseases, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 North Wolfe St, Olser 425, Baltimore, MD 21287-5425 ([email protected]).
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Abstract

Using a validated air sampling method we found Acinetobacter baumannii in the air surrounding only 1 of 12 patients known to be colonized or infected with A. baumannii. Patients’ closed-circuit ventilator status, frequent air exchanges in patient rooms, and short sampling time may have contributed to this low burden.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2015;36(7):830–832

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 36 , Issue 7 , July 2015 , pp. 830 - 832
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© 2015 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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