Acinetobacter sweeping through long-term care facilities, nursing homes
By Bryant Furlow at EpiNews June 11, 2010 — The cycling of elderly patients between nursing homes and hospitals has created a difficult to-control Acinetobacter reservoir in long-term care facilities, according to a newly-published, six year study ofmultidrug-resistant hospital infections among elderly Michigan residents. Acinetobacter infection rates among elderly patients climbed 25 percent between 2003 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Multidrug‐Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii: An Emerging Pathogen among Older Adults in Community Hospitals and Nursing Homes
Clinical Infectious Diseases June 15, 2010 Background.Drug‐resistant Acinetobacter species are problematic in tertiary‐care hospitals. We describe the epidemiology, resistance patterns, and outcomes of older adults with Acinetobacter infection in community hospitals. Methods.We queried the microbiology databases of the Oakwood Healthcare System (4 hospitals with 632, 259, 199, and 168 beds) for clinical Acinetobacter cultures obtained [...]
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