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Pseudo-Outbreak of Oxa-23-Mediated Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in Urinary Tract Infections Caused by an Automated Urine Analyzer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2016

Assaf Mizrahi ,
Thierry Lambert ,
Barbara Vidal ,
Carine Couzigou ,
Jean Claude Nguyen Van  and
Alban Le Monnier
Assaf Mizrahi*
Affiliation:
Microbiology Unit, Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint Joseph, Paris, France
Thierry Lambert
Affiliation:
Microbiology Unit, Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint Joseph, Paris, France
Barbara Vidal
Affiliation:
Infection Control Unit, Antimicrobial Stewardship, Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint Joseph, Paris, France
Carine Couzigou
Affiliation:
Infection Control Unit, Antimicrobial Stewardship, Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint Joseph, Paris, France
Jean Claude Nguyen Van
Affiliation:
Microbiology Unit, Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint Joseph, Paris, France
Alban Le Monnier
Affiliation:
Microbiology Unit, Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint Joseph, Paris, France
*
185 rue Raymond Losserand, 75014 Paris, France (amizrahi@hpsj.fr).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 35 , Issue 11 , November 2014 , pp. 1440 - 1441
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© 2014 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved.

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