Volume 17, Number 6—June 2011
Dispatch
Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Harboring OXA-24 Carbapenemase, Spain
Joshi Acosta, María Merino, Esther Viedma, Margarita Poza, Francisca Sanz, Joaquín R. Otero, Fernando Chaves, and Germán Bou
Figure 1
Figure 1. Temporal distribution of patients with Acinetobacter baumannii infections, Spain. A) Patients colonized/infected with A. baumannii classified by antibiotype. Arrows indicate times of intensification of infection control measures. The medical–surgical intensive care unit at Octubre University Hospital, Madrid, Spain, was refurbished in July 2007. B) Annual incidence of A. baumannii bacteremia. ABCA, A. baumannii clone A or AbH12O-A2; ABNCA: A. baumannii nonclone A.
1These authors contributed equally to this article.
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