Acynetobacter baumanii extremely resistant outbreak control in ICU: a multidisciplinary approach
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Acynetobacter baumanii extremely resistant outbreak control in ICU: a multidisciplinary approach
Methods Observational analysis using ENVIN-HELICS database of all the infected and/or colonized patients in our ICU between January and May 2014 and to describe the multi-disciplinary measures performed for it ́s control: hygiene measures (strict hand hygiene, patients daily wash with special chlorhexidine gel, strict contact isolation), clustering measures (grouping all positive patients in ICU...
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عنوان ژورنال: Intensive Care Medicine Experimental
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2197-425X
DOI: 10.1186/2197-425x-3-s1-a132