Nosocomial multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii bloodstream infection: risk factors and outcome with ampicillin-sulbactam treatment.

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Published in J Hosp Infect on May 01, 2003

Authors

R Smolyakov1, A Borer, K Riesenberg, F Schlaeffer, M Alkan, A Porath, D Rimar, Y Almog, J Gilad

Author Affiliations

1: Infectious Disease Institute, Soroka University Medical Centre and the Faculty for Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

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