Mortality Associated with <i>Acinetobacter baumannii</i> Complex Bacteremia among Patients with War-Related Trauma

Grace Kang, Joshua D. Hartzell, Robin Howard, Robert N. Wood-Morris, Mark D. Johnson, Susan Fraser, Amy Weintrob, Glenn Wortmann

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology · 2009 · 20 citations · 9 references

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Abstract

We investigated the mortality associated with Acinetobacter baumannii complex bacteremia among a cohort of patients hospitalized for war-related trauma. Despite a high prevalence of multidrug-resistant strains, the 30-day mortality rate was 2%. For relatively young patients with war-related trauma, A. baumannii complex bacteremia appears to be associated with a low risk of death.

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