| nosocomial respiratory tract infection and colonization with acinetobacter calcoaceticus. epidemiologic characteristics. | nosocomial respiratory tract infection with acinetobacter calcoaceticus occurs frequently in many hospitals. an outbreak of respiratory tract infections in an intensive care unit provided an opportunity to study clinical and epidemiologic characteristics of such infections. retrospective studies demonstrated that a. calcoaceticus in sputum was significantly associated with endotracheal intubation (p = 0.03) and continuous positive pressure ventilation (p less than 0.02). after control measures h ... | 1978 | 362918 |
| a common source outbreak of acinetobacter pulmonary infections traced to wright respirometers. | over a 30-day period, acinetobacter calcoaceticus var. antiratus was the responsible pathogen for hospital-acquired pneumonia in 10 patients, and resulted in the colonization of the upper respiratory tract in an additional 9 patients. wright respirometers contaminated by this organism were shown to be the common source for the outbreak as indicated by the recovery of a single serotype (8j), the inability to recover acinetobacter from any other environmental source, and the demonstration that moi ... | 1980 | 6930637 |
| a cluster of acinetobacter pneumonia in foundry workers. | in a 3-month period, three men who had worked for 5 to 19 years as welders or grinders of steel castings in a foundry acquired pneumonia caused by acinetobacter calcoaceticus variety anitratus serotype 7j. two of the men died, and postmortem examination showed mixed-dust pneumoconiosis with iron particles in the lungs. a calcoaceticus variety anitratus serotype 7j was isolated from the air in the foundry but the source was not found. the prevalence of antibody titers of 64 or greater to the 7j s ... | 1981 | 7305146 |