Control and Elimination of Extensively Drug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumanii in an Intensive Care Unit
We decreased antimicrobial drug consumption in an intensive care unit in Lebanon by changing to colistin monotherapy for extensively drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumanii infections. We saw a 78% decrease of A. baumanii in sputum and near-elimination of blaoxa-23-carrying sequence type 2 clone over...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2019-10-01
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| Series: | Emerging Infectious Diseases |
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| Online Access: | https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/10/18-1626_article |