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(Elsevier Health Sciences) Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii was found in the environment of 48 percent of the rooms of patients colonized or infected with the pathogen, according to a new study published in the November issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of APIC -- the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.

A sharp increase in community-associated strains of a drug-resistant pathogen among outpatients is driving the rise of resistance within hospitals, researchers said.