Reduction in the prevalence of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas aeruginosa in New York City. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • We compared susceptibilities of Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas aeruginosa collected during surveillance studies conducted during 2009 and 2013-2014 involving hospitals in New York City. There were significant decreases in the number of carbapenem-resistant A baumannii and P aeruginosa cases during 2013-2014; it appears the institution of effective infection control measures has contributed to this decline. However the number of isolates of A baumannii with OXA-23-type β-lactamase increased during 2013-2014.

publication date

  • March 26, 2015

Research

keywords

  • Acinetobacter Infections
  • Acinetobacter baumannii
  • Cross Infection
  • Infection Control
  • Pseudomonas Infections
  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 84931571006

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.ajic.2015.02.018

PubMed ID

  • 25818022

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 43

issue

  • 6