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Acinetobacter Skin Carriage Among US Army Soldiers Deployed in Iraq

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Matthew E. Griffith ,
Donald R. Lazarus ,
Paul B. Mann ,
John A. Boger ,
Duane R. Hospenthal  and
Clinton K. Murray
Matthew E. Griffith*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas
Donald R. Lazarus
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Darnall Army Community Hospital, Fort Hood, Texas
Paul B. Mann
Affiliation:
28th Combat Support Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq
John A. Boger
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington DC
Duane R. Hospenthal
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas
Clinton K. Murray
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas
*
USA, Infectious Disease Clinic (MCHE-MDI), Brooke Army Medical Center, 3851 Roger Brooke Drive, Fort Sam Houston, TX 78234 (matthew.griffith@amedd.army.mil)
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Abstract

Skin carriage of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-baumannii complex was not detected among a representative sample of 102 US Army soldiers stationed in Iraq. This observation refutes the hypothesis that preinjury skin carriage serves as the reservoir for the Acinetobacter infections seen in US military combat casualties.

Type
Concise Communication
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 28 , Issue 6 , June 2007 , pp. 720 - 722
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2007

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