Hospital infection with Acinetobacter spp.: an increasing problem
| Autor: | M.L. Joly-Guillou, E. Bergogne-Bérézin |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
| Předmět: |
Microbiology (medical)
Microbial Sensitivity Tests Disease Outbreaks Serology Microbiology Antibiotic resistance Seroepidemiologic Studies medicine Humans Endocarditis Typing Serotyping Bacteriophage Typing Cross Infection biology Incidence Outbreak General Medicine Acinetobacter medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Virology Bacterial Typing Techniques Infectious Diseases Neisseriaceae Pneumonia (non-human) Acinetobacter Infections Plasmids |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Hospital Infection. 18:250-255 |
| ISSN: | 0195-6701 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0195-6701(91)90030-c |
| Popis: | During the last few years, among nosocomial pathogens, Acinetobacter spp. have given rise to an increasing number of nosocomial infections. Acinetobacter strains are widely distributed in nature; in hospitals, the human skin is the likely source for most outbreaks of hospital infections. The organism has been frequently found in the inanimate environment, especially in moist situations and it has been isolated from various types of opportunistic infections (septicaemia, endocarditis, meningitis, pneumonia, skin and wound sepsis and urinary tract infection). For epidemiological studies, various typing methods such as biotyping, bacteriocin typing and serology have been developed. More recently electrophoretic patterns of cell-envelope proteins and plasmid analysis have proved useful in differentiating outbreak strains. Antibiogram typing may be useful but the antibiotic resistance of Acinetobacter spp. has changed rapidly within the last few years and thus antibiotyping must be complemented by other typing systems. New methods such as electrophoretic analysis of isoenzymes, definition of plasmidotype profiles or restriction endonuclease digestion of chromosomal DNA are under investigation. |
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