Contamination of Ambient Air with Acinetobacter baumannii on Consecutive Inpatient Days.
Acinetobacter-positive patients had their ambient air tested for up to 10 consecutive days. The air was Acinetobacter positive for an average of 21% of the days; the rate of contamination was higher among patients colonized in the rectum than in the airways (relative risk [RR], 2.35; P = 0.006). Of the 6 air/clinical isolate pairs available, 4 pairs were closely related according to rep-PCR results.
Department of Medicine, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA.
Luis A
LA
Shimose
Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Yohei
Y
Doi
Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Departments of Medicine, Molecular Biology and Microbiology, and Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Robert A
RA
Bonomo
Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida, USA.
Dennise
D
De Pascale
Division of Infectious Diseases, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Roberto A
RA
Viau
Department of Pathology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA.
Timothy
T
Cleary
Department of Surgery, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA.
Nicholas
N
Namias
Department of Medicine, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA.
Daniel H
DH
Kett
Institute of Health and Society, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA smunozprice@mcw.edu.
L Silvia
LS
Munoz-Price
D000151:Acinetobacter Infections / Q000382:microbiology*; D040981:Acinetobacter baumannii / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D000328:Adult; D000391:Air Microbiology; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D058889:Molecular Typing; D012007:Rectum / Q000382:microbiology; D012137:Respiratory System / Q000382:microbiology