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    Molecular and Antibiogram Relationships of Acinetobacter Isolates from Two Contrasting Hospitals in the United Kingdom and South Africa (1999)
    Springer
    European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases 18 (1999), S. 595-598 
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    ISSN: 1435-4373
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract  The aim of this study was to compare the molecular relationships and antibiograms of nosocomial isolates of Acinetobacter spp. from two acute-care hospitals in Nottingham, UK, and Soweto, South Africa, with different hospital infection control problems and procedures. In contrast to Nottingham, where randomly amplified polymorphic DNA fingerprinting demonstrated that a single multiresistant strain of Acinetobacter baumannii has predominated in the hospital intensive care unit over an 11-year period, the Soweto isolates formed a heterogeneous group of unrelated molecular clusters of different antibiograms, with numerous different strains of Acinetobacter baumannii, Acinetobacter sp. 3 and Acinetobacter sp. 13TU apparently being endemic throughout the Soweto hospital. The contrasting results illustrate the need to maintain exemplary infection control procedures in hospitals where high standards have been achieved and warn of what might result if such measures are diminished.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s100960050354
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    Invasive Group B Streptococcal Disease in Nonpregnant Adults (1999)
    Springer
    European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases 18 (1999), S. 362-364 
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    ISSN: 1435-4373
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract  Forty episodes of invasive group B streptococcal infections in nonpregnant adults at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto, South Africa, were retrospectively reviewed. The mean age of the patients was 45.6 years. Twenty (50%) patients were bacteraemic. Common predisposing conditions included diabetes mellitus (27.5%), trauma (25%), and HIV infection (12.5%). Soft tissue abscesses and pneumonia accounted for 70% of the presentations. Ten (25%) patients had acquired the infection nosocomially. Death occurred in 14 (35%) patients and was significantly associated with bacteraemia (P=0.0009) and pneumonia (P=0.0012). Trauma is an important predisposing condition, and HIV infection may have played a role in the setting described; both factors probably accounted for the relatively young age of the patients.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/PL00015020
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