Identifying an Acinetobacter baumannii outbreak and its hospital persistence
In 2017 an outbreak of Acinetobacter baumannii was identified at General Hospital of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.A. baumannii used to be a rare isolate from 2013 to 2016, but from 2017 to 2021 has become the most isolatedbacterium in relation to ventilator associated pneumonia, including the current pa...
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Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez
2022
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| Online Access: | http://erevistas.uacj.mx/ojs/index.php/expemed/article/view/4922 |
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| Summary: | In 2017 an outbreak of Acinetobacter baumannii was identified at General Hospital of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.A. baumannii used to be a rare isolate from 2013 to 2016, but from 2017 to 2021 has become the most isolatedbacterium in relation to ventilator associated pneumonia, including the current pandemic infection via sars-cov-2.It stands out as a multidrug resistant bacterium, being sensitive —for now— to tigecycline and colistin (theoretically). With its endemicity highlighted, and in accordance with published articles in our country, it can be consideredto be a crucial public health problem. The solutions to A. baumannii and other opportunistic bacteria have to beimplemented locally; otherwise, as usual, problems will temporiz |
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