| an outbreak of acinetobacter septicaemia in a neonatal intensive care unit. | we describe an outbreak of gram-negative septicaemia due to a rare, non-fermenting, aerobic organism, acinetobacter calcoaceticus var. lwoffi. the outbreak occurred on a neonatal unit and was confined to babies who were receiving parenteral nutrition. seven babies developed septicaemia within 24 hours. the source of the outbreak was never firmly established, but contamination of the parenteral nutrition fluid was considered most likely. all 7 babies recovered uneventfully after a week's course o ... | 1989 | 2575636 |
| non-susceptibility trends among pseudomonas aeruginosa and other non-fermentative gram-negative bacteria from bacteraemias in the uk and ireland, 2001-06. | pseudomonas and acinetobacter spp. are important opportunists, notorious for resistance. pseudomonas spp. are collected in the british society for antimicrobial chemotherapy (bsac) bacteraemia surveillance, with acinetobacter spp. and stenotrophomonas maltophilia well represented in the 'other gram-negatives' group. | 2008 | 18819980 |