1996
DOI: 10.1128/cmr.9.2.148
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Acinetobacter spp. as nosocomial pathogens: microbiological, clinical, and epidemiological features

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“…Clostridium is a widely variable oxygen-tolerant anaerobic genus found in soil, freshwater, marine sediments, animal and human feces, and human clinical isolates such as blood, wounds, and abscesses [39]. It is this ubiquitous nature that likely explains the presence of Clostridium and Clostridiaceae on both cadavers in this study.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 93%
“…Clostridium is a widely variable oxygen-tolerant anaerobic genus found in soil, freshwater, marine sediments, animal and human feces, and human clinical isolates such as blood, wounds, and abscesses [39]. It is this ubiquitous nature that likely explains the presence of Clostridium and Clostridiaceae on both cadavers in this study.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 93%
“…8,12,[17][18][19] Our study involved an outbreak of MDR A. baumannii in 2004 during which most of the patients had been transferred from another hospital, in particular from a respiratory ICU with the diagnosis of acute exacerbation of COPD. In various studies, cross-contamination by transfer of infected and or/colonized patients from one facility to another has been reported to play an important role in epidemics of A. baumannii infection.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Acinetobacter baumannii is a gram-negative coccobacillus that causes serious infections in compromised human hosts (Bergogne-Berezin and Towner 1996;Bergogne-Berezin 2001;Villegas and Hartstein 2003). This bacterial pathogen has been observed to cause community-acquired pneumonia as well as nosocomial infections and has recently emerged as a problematic infection for troops wounded in the Middle East (Davis et al 2005;Joly-Guillou 2005;Dijkshoorn et al 2007).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 98%