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Acinetobacter skin carriage among US army soldiers deployed in Iraq

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INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
Volume 28, Issue 6, Pages 720-722

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UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/518966

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Skin carriage of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-baumannii complex was not detected among a representative sample of 102 US Army soldiers stationed in Iraq. This observation refutes the hypothesis that preinjury skin carriage serves as the reservoir for the Acinetobacter infections seen in US military combat casualties.

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