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Environmental Exposure to Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii as a Risk Factor for Patient Acquisition of A. baumannii

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2016

Rossana Rosa ,
Kristopher L. Arheart ,
Dennise Depascale ,
Timothy Cleary ,
Daniel H. Kett ,
Nicholas Namias ,
Louis Pizano ,
Yovanit Fajardo-Aquino  and
L. Silvia Munoz-Price
Rossana Rosa
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
Kristopher L. Arheart
Affiliation:
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida Division of Biostatistics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
Dennise Depascale
Affiliation:
Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida
Timothy Cleary
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
Daniel H. Kett
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
Nicholas Namias
Affiliation:
Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida Department of Anesthesiology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
Louis Pizano
Affiliation:
Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
Yovanit Fajardo-Aquino
Affiliation:
Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida
L. Silvia Munoz-Price*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida Department of Anesthesiology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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PPW L-302, 1611 NW 12th Avenue, Miami, FL 33134 (smunozprice@med.miami.edu)
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Abstract

We aimed to determine the association between environmental exposure to carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii and the subsequent risk of acquiring this organism. Patients exposed to a contaminated hospital environment had 2.77 times the risk of acquiring carbapenem-resistant A. baumannii than did unexposed patients (relative risk, 2.77 [95% confidence interval, 1.50–5.13]; P = .002).

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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 35 , Issue 4: Special Topic Issue: Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae and Multidrug-Resistant Organisms , April 2014 , pp. 430 - 433
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2014

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