title: Investigation and management of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii spread in a French medical intensive care unit: one outbreak may hide another.
abstract: An outbreak in a medical intensive care unit was due to an OXA-23-producing Acinetobacter baumannii strain imported from a repatriate hospitalized in Singapore. This outbreak revealed another multidrug resistant epidemic strain that had been present in the hospital for 2 years. Both outbreaks were controlled after 9 months of an extensive infection control program.
authors.affiliation: Service de Bactériologie-Hygiène, Nantes, France. celine.bourigault@chu-nantes.fr
authors.forename: Céline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bourigault
authors.forename: Stéphane
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Corvec
authors.forename: Cédric
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bretonnière
authors.forename: Aurélie
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Guillouzouic
authors.forename: Lise
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Crémet
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Marraillac
authors.forename: Marie-Emmanuelle
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Juvin
authors.forename: Pascale
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bemer
authors.forename: Florence
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Le Gallou
authors.forename: Alain
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Reynaud
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Boutoille
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Villers
authors.forename: Didier
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lepelletier
mesh_terms: D000151:Acinetobacter Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D000368:Aged; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D024901:Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial; D004866:Equipment Contamination / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods*; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012846:Singapore