AJIC: American Journal of Infection Control
Volume 37, Issue 9 , Pages 715-722 , November 2009

Long-term control of hospital-wide, endemic multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii through a comprehensive “bundle” approach

  • Jesús Rodríguez-Baño, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Sección Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena and Departamento de Medicina, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
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  • Lola García, RN

      Affiliations

    • Sección Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena and Departamento de Medicina, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
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  • Encarnación Ramírez, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena, and Departamento de Microbiología, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
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  • Luis Martínez-Martínez, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena, and Departamento de Microbiología, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
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  • Miguel A. Muniain, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Sección Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena and Departamento de Medicina, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
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  • Felipe Fernández-Cuenca, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena, and Departamento de Microbiología, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
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  • Margarita Beltrán, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Servicio de Farmacia, Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena, Sevilla, Spain
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  • Juan Gálvez, MD

      Affiliations

    • Sección Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena and Departamento de Medicina, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
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  • Jose M. Rodríguez, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena, and Departamento de Microbiología, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
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  • Carmen Velasco, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena, and Departamento de Microbiología, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
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  • Concepción Morillo, RN

      Affiliations

    • Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena, and Departamento de Microbiología, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
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  • Federico Perez, MD

      Affiliations

    • Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine, Louis Stokes Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, OH
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  • Andrea Endimiani, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine, Louis Stokes Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, OH
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  • Robert A. Bonomo, MD

      Affiliations

    • Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine, Louis Stokes Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, OH
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Robert A. Bonomo, MD, Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 10701 East Blvd, Cleveland, OH, 44106.
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  • Alvaro Pascual, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena, and Departamento de Microbiología, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain

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 L.M-M.'s present address is Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain.

 Supported in part by the Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo, Instituto de Salud Carlos III-FEDER, Spanish Network for the Research in Infectious Diseases (REIPI C03/14 and REIPI RD06/0008), and FIS PI051019; a fellowship from the Asociación Sanitaria Virgen Macarena (to C.M.); the Merit Review Award and Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center VISN 10 from the Department of Veterans Affairs and the NIH (RO1 AI072219; to R.A.B.); AstraZeneca (to A.E.); and a Wyeth Fellowship in Antimicrobial Resistance (to F.P.).

 Conflicts of interest: None to report.

PII: S0196-6553(09)00106-0

doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2009.01.008

AJIC: American Journal of Infection Control
Volume 37, Issue 9 , Pages 715-722 , November 2009

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