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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, January 2001, p. 389-391, Vol. 39, No. 1
0095-1137/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.1.389-391.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Acinetobacter baumannii at a Tertiary-Care Teaching Hospital in Jerusalem, Israel

A. Simhon,1,* G. Rahav,1 G. Shazberg,2 C. Block,1 H. Bercovier,1 and M. Shapiro1

Department of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Hadassah-University Hospital,1 and Department of Pediatrics, Bikur Holim General Hospital,2 Jerusalem, Israel

Received 10 July 2000/Returned for modification 17 September 2000/Accepted 27 October 2000

In a retrospective 10-year analysis of 3,536 patient-unique isolates, Acinetobacter baumannii imipenem susceptibility declined from 98.1 (1990) to 64.1% (2000), and ciprofloxacin susceptibility decreased from 50.5 to 13.1%. Imipenem median zone diameters decreased from 27.7 (1997) to 18.8 mm (2000). No outbreaks were detected. Two clusters were identified for 41 strains genotyped by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, but imipenem resistance was not clonal.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Dept. of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, P.O. Box 12000, Jerusalem 91120, Israel. Phone: 972-2-677-6543. Fax: 972-2-641-9545. E-mail: simhon{at}hadassah.org.il.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, January 2001, p. 389-391, Vol. 39, No. 1
0095-1137/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.1.389-391.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.




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