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Pseudo-outbreak of Acinetobacter Iwoffii Infection in a Tertiary Care Center in Thailand

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Anucha Apisarnthanarak ,
Pattarachai Kiratisin ,
Kanokporn Thongphubeth ,
Chananart Yuakyen  and
Linda M. Mundy
Anucha Apisarnthanarak*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasart University Hospital, Pratumthani, Thailand
Pattarachai Kiratisin
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
Kanokporn Thongphubeth
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasart University Hospital, Pratumthani, Thailand
Chananart Yuakyen
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasart University Hospital, Pratumthani, Thailand
Linda M. Mundy
Affiliation:
Saint Louis University School of Public Health, Saint Louis, Missouri
*
Division of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasart University Hospital, Pratumthani, Thailand12120 (anapisarn@yahoo.com)
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Abstract

We describe a pseudo-outbreak of Acinetobacter Iwoffii infection that was recognized early. The pseudo-outbreak involved 16 patients and occurred 3.5 months after the GNS-506 Vitek automated system was introduced in the microbiology laboratory. Prompt confirmation of incomplete use of the automated system's algorithm as the point source of the misidentified A. Iwoffii clinical isolates averted a full outbreak investigation and excess use of infection control resources.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 28 , Issue 5 , May 2007 , pp. 637 - 639
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2007

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