Publications

outcomes of acinetobacter baumannii infection in critically ill surgical patients.	multi-drug resistant (mdr) organisms in intensive care units (icus) are a growing concern. the emergence of several infections with mdr acinetobacter baumannii prompted a review of cases and evaluation of the efficacy of intervention.	2007	17883360
outcomes of acinetobacter baumannii infection in critically ill burned patients.	the objective of this study was to determine the incidence of drug resistance among isolates of acinetobacter baumannii from our burn intensive care unit (bicu), the rate of clinical cure, and the mortality rate. we undertook a retrospective review of all cases of infection from the bicu between january 2004 and november 2005. the group consisted of 24 men (80%) and 6 women with a mean age of 43 years (range, 17-76 years, +/-14.5 years). mean tbsa burned was 43% (range, 9-75%, +/-19%). mean bicu ...	2007	17351441
molecular epidemiology of carbapenem-nonsusceptible acinetobacter baumannii in the united states.	acinetobacter baumannii is emerging as an important nosocomial pathogen worldwide. we report molecular epidemiology of 65 carbapenem-nonsusceptible a. baumannii isolates identified from hospitals in new york, pennsylvania, florida, missouri, nevada, and california between 2008 and 2009. all isolates were subjected to pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (pfge). select isolates then underwent multilocus sequence typing (mlst). while the pfge patterns tended to cluster within each hospital, sequence t ...	2011	21918019