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A gloves-associated outbreak of imipenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in an intensive care unit in Guangdong, China

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Infectious Diseases, April 2015
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Title
A gloves-associated outbreak of imipenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in an intensive care unit in Guangdong, China
Published in
BMC Infectious Diseases, April 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12879-015-0917-9
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Dan Ye, Jinglan Shan, Yongbo Huang, Jianchun Li, Changan Li, Xiaoqing Liu, Weiqun He, Yimin Li, Pu Mao

Abstract

Imipenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (IRAB) is an important cause of hospital-acquired infection. We aimed to describe an outbreak of IRAB infection and to investigate its possible source in an intensive care unit. An environmental investigation was undertaken. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed by microdilution. These isolates were genotyped by use of repetitive extragenic palindromic polymerase chain reaction (rep-PCR; DiversiLab). The study included 11 patients infected with IRAB and 14 control patients free of IRAB. Case and control patients were compared for possible predisposing factors. A multifaceted intervention was implemented to control the outbreak. Thirty-nine IRABs were isolated from patients and the environmental surveillance culture in August, November, and December 2011. All isolates were resistant to imipenem. The IRAB strains belonged to seven clones (A-G) by the use of rep-PCR. There were four epidemic clones (D-G) in the outbreak, and Clone D was predominant. For the case-control study, patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were susceptible to infection with IRAB. The hospital mortality of the case group was significantly higher than that of the control group. The outbreak strains were transmitted among infected patients and equipment by inappropriate use of gloves. A combination of aggressive infection control measures is essential for preventing recurrent nosocomial outbreaks of IRAB.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Malaysia 1 2%
United Kingdom 1 2%
Unknown 47 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 10 20%
Researcher 8 16%
Student > Bachelor 6 12%
Other 6 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 6%
Other 7 14%
Unknown 9 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 16 33%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 12%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 10%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 4%
Environmental Science 1 2%
Other 7 14%
Unknown 12 24%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 November 2017.
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#13,218,008
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Outputs from BMC Infectious Diseases
#3,169
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#124,333
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Infectious Diseases
#43
of 118 outputs
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