… baumannii isolates (26 from the ward environment and 62 from … isolates from patients than
from the ward environment, with all of … Isolations from both the ward environment and patients …

… Acinetobacter have been characterized but only few species including Acinetobacter baumannii…
baumannii in various wards of four hospitals is presented in Table 3. As the data shows A…

… surveillance culture was done before terminal disinfection of the involved surgical ward,
followed by weekly regular environmental surveillance during day times, just before routine …

… patients in the same ward or between wards, and could potentially start … wards. We also
recommend a more frequent surveillance for the prevalence of this pathogen on environmental …

… Environmental contamination of hospital items with Acinetobacter baumannii has been …
Investigators showed that Acinetobacter baumannii strains could be isolated from a hospital …

… isolates from the patients' respiratory tract and hospital environment carried much … baumannii
strains survived well in the hospital environment, especially in water and moist environment …

… ward environment was screened revealing that 27 of 51 (53%) sampled sites were contaminated
with an indistinguishable strain of A. baumannii, … days whilst the ward environment was …

… They have also been cultured from the air on hospital wards. While it is known that … Outbreak
strains of Acinetobacter baumannii are frequently found in the clinical environment [15,16,28…

… ward environment was screened revealing that 27 of 51 (53%) sampled sites were contaminated
with an indistinguishable strain of A. baumannii… 8 days whilst the ward environment was …

… To preliminarily evaluate environmental … medicine wards for CRAB. Based on the preliminary
results, we serially tested for environmental CRAB in multipatient rooms in medical wards, …