High mortality in an outbreak of multidrug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infection introduced to an oncological hospital by a patient transferred from a general hospital.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe the clinical features, outcomes, and molecular epidemiology of an outbreak of multidrug resistant (MDR) A. baumannii.

Methods

We performed a retrospective analysis of all MDR A. baumannii isolates recovered during an outbreak from 2011 to 2015 in a tertiary care cancer hospital. Cases were classified as colonized or infected. We determined sequence types following the Bartual scheme and plasmid profiles.

Results

There were 106 strains of A. baumannii isolated during the study period. Sixty-six (62.3%) were considered as infection and 40 (37.7%) as colonization. The index case, identified by molecular epidemiology, was a patient with a drain transferred from a hospital outside Mexico City. Ninety-eight additional cases had the same MultiLocus Sequ

SUBMITTER: Cornejo-Juarez P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7377454 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature