Acinetobacter baumannii found growing in nearly half of infected patient rooms

Tuesday, November 1, 2011 - 09:30 in Health & Medicine

Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (MDR-AB) was found in the environment of 48 percent of the rooms of patients colonized or infected with the pathogen, according to a new study published in the November issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of APIC - the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.

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