Bed rails and endotracheal tube connectors as possible sources for spreading Acinetobacter baumannii in ventilator-associated pneumonia patients

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Suphawita Chaladchalam, Pornphan Diraphat, Fuangfa Utrarachkij, Orasa Suthienkul, Rudiwilai Samakoses, Kanokrat Siripanichgon
• مؤلفون آخرون: Mahidol University
• التنسيق: مقال
• منشور في: 2018
• الموضوعات: Medicine
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/19614

This study aimed to determine molecular patterns of Acinetobacter baumannii using a PCR-based technique with REP-1, REP-2 and M13 primers to distinguish the patients' strains and the environmental strains (condensate, endotracheal tube connector, bed rail and nurses hands). There were 67 cases...