Volume 12, Number 8—August 2006
Research
VEB-1 Extended-Spectrum β-lactamase–producing Acinetobacter baumannii, France1
Thierry Naas*2
, Bruno Coignard†2, Anne Carbonne‡, Karine Blanckaert‡, Odile Bajolet§, Claude Bernet¶, Xavier Verdeil#, Pascal Astagneau‡, Jean-Claude Desenclos†, Patrice Nordmann*, and on behalf ofthe French Nosocomial Infection Early Warning, Investigation and Surveillance Network
, Bruno Coignard†2, Anne Carbonne‡, Karine Blanckaert‡, Odile Bajolet§, Claude Bernet¶, Xavier Verdeil#, Pascal Astagneau‡, Jean-Claude Desenclos†, Patrice Nordmann*, and on behalf ofthe French Nosocomial Infection Early Warning, Investigation and Surveillance NetworkTable 1
VEB-1–producing Acinetobacter baumannii case characteristics and period of transmission, by district, France, April 2003–May 2004 (N = 290)
| District* | Reporting hospitals (n) | Reported cases (n)† |
Reported deaths (n) | Date of case diagnosis |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | I | C | U | First | Last | |||
| Nord (59) | 19 | 124 | 19 | 60 | 45 | 24 | 22 Apr 2003 | 13 May 2004 |
| Pas de Calais (62) | 14 | 111 | 32 | 55 | 24 | 7 | 9 Mar 2003 | 14 May 2004 |
| Aisne (02) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 Nov 2003 | 5 Nov 2003 |
| Ardennes (08) | 2 | 14 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 15 May 2003 | 2 Feb 2004 |
| Champagne (51) | 1 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 13 Aug 2003 | 15 Mar 2004 |
| Paris (75) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 Jan 2004 | 31 Jan 2004 |
| Val de Marne (94) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 May 2004 | 3 May 2004 |
| Yvelines (78) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 Mar 2004 | 8 Mar 2004 |
| Rhône (69) | 4 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 13 Aug 2003 | 7 Feb 2004 |
| Isère (38) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 Dec 2003 | 2 Dec 2003 |
| Haute Garonne (31) | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 16 Sep 2003 | 15 Apr 2004 |
| Tarn (81) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 28 Oct 2003 | 5 Jan 2004 |
| Hérault (34) | 2 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 21 Oct 2003 | 9 Apr 2004 |
| Gard (30) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 Apr 2004 | 10 Apr 2004 |
| Alpes Maritimes (06) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 Jan 2004 | 3 Jan 2004 |
| Total | 53 | 290 | 73 | 144 | 73 | 34 | 22 Apr 2003 | 14 May 2004 |
*Districts are listed from north to south and west to east; numbers are those used in Figure 2 to identify districts.
†I, infected; C, colonized; U, unknown.
1This study was presented in part at the 2004 Annual Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance: Science • Prevention • Control, June 28–30, 2004, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
2These authors contributed equally to this work.
