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cord-002847-w3r0oetd	Kanafani, Zeina A.	Multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter species: a seven-year experience from a tertiary care center in Lebanon	2018-01-22		.txt	text/plain	3904	205	47	At the American University of Beirut Medical Center, the incidence of multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (MDR-Ab) infections in the ICU increased sharply in 2007 by around 120%, and these infections have continued to cause a serious problem to this day. baumannii (MDR-Ab) has become a significant cause of hospitalacquired infections (HAI) and hospital-acquired colonizations (HAC) resulting in high morbidity and mortality [3] in patients admitted to the intensive care units (ICU) over the past two decades [4] . Repeated cleaning and disinfection was performed for all surfaces or equipment identified to be contaminated with MDR-Ab. A nested retrospective case-control study from January 2007 till June 2008 was performed in the ICU and the Respiratory Care Unit (RCU) to analyze patient related risk factors leading to MDR-Ab transmissions. Controls were randomly selected from patients admitted to the ICU and the RCU during the same study period but who did not have a positive screening culture for MDR-Ab. Moreover, cases consisted of patients with one or more cultures growing MDR-Ab (either colonized or infected).	./cache/cord-002847-w3r0oetd.txt	./txt/cord-002847-w3r0oetd.txt