{"id":2471,"date":"2020-12-01T12:32:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T20:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2471"},"modified":"2020-12-02T12:34:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T20:34:09","slug":"increase-in-hospital-acquired-carbapenem-resistant-acinetobacter-baumannii-infection-and-colonization-in-an-acute-care-hospital-during-a-surge-in-covid-19-admissions-new-jersey-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/01\/increase-in-hospital-acquired-carbapenem-resistant-acinetobacter-baumannii-infection-and-colonization-in-an-acute-care-hospital-during-a-surge-in-covid-19-admissions-new-jersey-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Increase in Hospital-Acquired Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter Baumannii Infection and Colonization in an Acute Care Hospital During a Surge in COVID-19 Admissions \u2014 New Jersey, February\u2013July 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cluster of 34 patients infected with an antibiotic-resistant pathogen primarily associated with hospital-acquired infections was observed in a New Jersey hospital during a surge of COVID-19 hospitalizations in late May 2020. The cluster was linked to deviations in infection prevention and control practices due to pandemic-related resource challenges. Fewer incident cases were reported in June 2020, once normal operations resumed as COVID-19 hospitalizations decreased.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Perez et al. (Dec 1, 2020). Increase in Hospital-Acquired Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter Baumannii Infection and Colonization in an Acute Care Hospital During a Surge in COVID-19 Admissions \u2014 New Jersey, February\u2013July 2020. MMWR. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6948e1\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6948e1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cluster of 34 patients infected with an antibiotic-resistant pathogen primarily associated with hospital-acquired infections was observed in a New Jersey hospital during a surge of COVID-19 hospitalizations in late May 2020. The cluster was linked to deviations in infection prevention and control practices due to pandemic-related resource challenges. Fewer incident cases were reported in&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/01\/increase-in-hospital-acquired-carbapenem-resistant-acinetobacter-baumannii-infection-and-colonization-in-an-acute-care-hospital-during-a-surge-in-covid-19-admissions-new-jersey-february\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34,120,38],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-2471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-clinical-characteristics","tag-nosocomial-transmission","tag-transmission","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2472,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions\/2472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}