An Outbreak of Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii-calcoaceticus Complex Infection in the US Military Health Care System Associated with Military Operations in Iraq

Clinical Infectious Diseases 15 Jun 2007 Vol.44 N.12 p.1577-1584

Paul Scott,1 Gregory Deye,7 Arjun Srinivasan,4 Clinton Murray,5 Kimberly Moran,6 Ed Hulten,6 Joel Fishbain,6 David Craft,6 Scott Riddell,7,a Luther Lindler,1 James Mancuso,8 Eric Milstrey,8,a Christian T. Bautista,1 Jean Patel,4 Alessa Ewell,6 Tacita Hamilton,1 Charla Gaddy,1 Martin Tenney,9,a George Christopher,7,a Kyle Petersen,2 Timothy Endy,1,a and Bruno Petruccelli,3

1Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, 2National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, and 3United States Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, Aberdeen, Maryland; 4Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia; 5Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas; 6Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC; 7Landstuhl Regional Medical Center and 8United States Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine Europe, Landstuhl, Germany; and 928th Combat Support Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq

abstract
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/518170