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CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION
Volume 11, Issue 7, Pages 540-546Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2005.01184.x
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Acinetobacter baumannii; carbapenem resistance; colonisation; infection; nosocomial outbreak; risk-factors
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Between October 2001 and August 2002, 30 hospital patients became infected or colonised by a multiresistant (including to carbapenems) epidemic strain of Acinetobacter baumannii (AbMR) in a hospital outbreak. This study analysed the risk-factors associated with acquisition of this epidemic strain and investigated the prognosis of patients infected by AbMR, with the aim Of elucidating factors which lead to mortality. A case-control study of the acquisition of AbMR in patient,, infected or colonised in the hospital outbreak was performed. Independent risk-factors leading to death were studied by logistic regression analysis. Multivariate analysis of the risk-factors for colonisation/infection with AbMR revealed an independent association with the presence of an arterial catheter (OR, 1.13; 95% Cl, 1.03-1.25) and administration of imipenem as monotherapy (OR, 11.12; 95% Cl, 2.33-53.09). Multivariate analysis of the prognostic features leading to mortality revealed a significant association with hypotension or shock (OR, 24.63; 95% Cl, 1.56-387.56) at the time of bacterial isolation.
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