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Guidance on Frequency and Location of Environmental Sampling for Acinetobacter baumannii

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2018

Alyssa N. Sbarra ,
Anthony D. Harris ,
J. Kristie Johnson ,
Laurence S. Madger ,
Lyndsay M. O’Hara ,
Sarah S. Jackson  and
Kerri A. Thom
Alyssa N. Sbarra
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut
Anthony D. Harris
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
J. Kristie Johnson
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland Department of Pathology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Laurence S. Madger
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Lyndsay M. O’Hara
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Sarah S. Jackson
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Kerri A. Thom*
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
*
Address correspondence to Kerri A. Thom, MD, MS, 655 W. Baltimore Street, Bressler M-021, Baltimore, MD 21201 (kthom@epi.umaryland.edu).
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Abstract

We assessed various locations and frequency of environmental sampling to maximize information and maintain efficiency when sampling for Acinetobacter baumannii. Although sampling sites in closer proximity to the patient were more likely positive, to fully capture environmental contamination, we found value in sampling all sites and across multiple days.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2018;39:339–342

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 39 , Issue 3 , March 2018 , pp. 339 - 342
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© 2018 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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