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Brito,Denise Von Dolinger de; Oliveira,Elias Jose; Darini,Ana Lúcia da Costa; Abdallah,Vânia Olivetti Sttephen; Gontijo-Filho,Paulo Pinto. |
The study documents the occurrence of two subsequent outbreaks in the NICU of HC-UFU, caused by epidemic strains of multiresistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii, that occurred between March/01 and September and between October/01 and March/02, respectively. The P. aeruginosa outbreak included seven neonates with conjunctivitis and three with bacteremia. A case-control study was conducted for the A. baumannii outbreak, with 11 and 22 neonates, respectively. The isolates of A. baumannii were resistant to gentamacin and ciprofloxacin. P. aeruginosa isolates were resistant to ampicillin/sulbactam gentamicin and ciprofloxacin. The hands of healthcare workers and environmental cultures were negative. The outbreak of P. aeruginosa resulted in... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Outbreak; Neonate; Acinetobacter baumannii; Pseudomonas aeruginosa. |
Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822003000500009 |
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