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Volume 24, Number 4—April 2018
Research

Carbapenem-Nonsusceptible Acinetobacter baumannii, 8 US Metropolitan Areas, 2012–2015

Sandra N. BulensComments to Author , Sarah H. Yi, Maroya S. Walters, Jesse T. Jacob, Chris Bower, Jessica Reno, Lucy Wilson, Elisabeth Vaeth, Wendy Bamberg, Sarah J. Janelle, Ruth Lynfield, Paula Snippes Vagnone, Kristin Shaw, Marion Kainer, Daniel Muleta, Jacqueline Mounsey, Ghinwa Dumyati, Cathleen Concannon, Zintars Beldavs, P. Maureen Cassidy, Erin C. Phipps, Nicole Kenslow, Emily B. Hancock, and Alexander J. Kallen
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (S.N. Bulens, S.H. Yi, M.S. Walters, A.J. Kallen); Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta (J.T. Jacob); Georgia Emerging Infections Program, Atlanta (J.T. Jacob, C. Bower, J. Reno); Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Decatur, Georgia, USA (C. Bower, J. Reno); Atlanta Research and Education Foundation, Decatur (C. Bower, J. Reno); Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore, Maryland, USA (L. Wilson, E. Vaeth); Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver, Colorado, USA (W. Bamberg, S.J. Janelle); Minnesota Department of Health, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA (R. Lynfield, P.S. Vagnone, K. Shaw); Tennessee Department of Public Health, Nashville, Tennessee, USA (M. Kainer, D. Muleta, J. Mounsey); New York Rochester Emerging Infections Program at the University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, USA (G. Dumyati, C. Concannon); Oregon Health Authority, Portland, Oregon, USA (Z. Beldavs, P.M. Cassidy); University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA (E.C. Phipps, N. Kenslow, E.B. Hancock)

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Table 1

Case counts and incidence of carbapenem-nonsusceptiable Acinetobacter baumannii in Emerging Infections Program sites, United States, 2012–2015*

Area
No. cases, N = 621
Crude annual incidence rates‡ (95% CI) aSIR‡ (95% CI)
aIRठfor all years
2012†
2013
2014
2015
2012†
2013
2014
2015
CO NDND 11 7 8 ND 0.4 (0.2–0.8) 0.3 (0.1–0.6) 0.3 (0.1–0.6) 0.4 (0.3–0.6) 0.4
GA 111 78 47 64 2.9 (2.4–3.5) 2.0 (1.6–2.5) 1.2 (0.9–1.5) 1.6 (1.2–2.1) 1.2 (1.1–1.4) 1.2
MD ND 77 81 78 ND 4.0 (3.2–5.0) 4.2 (3.3–5.2) 4.0 (3.2–5.0) 2.5 (2.2–2.9) 3.0
MN 2 10 7 7 0.12 (0–0.4) 0.6 (0.3–1.1) 0.4 (0.2–0.8) 0.4 (0.2–0.8) 0.4 (0.2–0.5) 0.4
NM ND 0 1 1 ND 0 (0–0.4) 0.2 (0–0.8) 0.2 (0–0.8) 0.1 (0–0.4) 0.1
NY ND 4 1 3 ND 0.5 (0.2–1.4) 0.1 (0–0.7) 0.4 (0.1–1.2) 0.3 (0.1–0.6) 0.4
OR 0 4 0 0 0 (0–0.2) 0.2 (0.1–0.6) 0 (0–0.2) 0 (0–0.2) 0.1 (0–0.1) 0.1
TN
ND
ND
12
7

ND
ND–
0.7 (0.4–1.3)
0.4 (0.2–0.9)
0.6 (0.4–1.0)
0.7
Total 113 184 156 168 1.6 (1.3–1.9) 1.4 (1.2–1.6) 1.0 (0.9–1.2) 1.1 (0.9–1.3) ND– ND–

*The study areas were Denver, CO; Atlanta, GA; Baltimore, MD; Minneapolis/Saint Paul, MN, Albuquerque, NM; Rochester, NY; Portland, OR; Nashville, TN. aIR, annual incidence rate; aSIR, adjusted standardized incidence ratio; ND, no data available.
†Only 3 Emerging Infection Program sites participated in 2012.
‡Per 100,000 population.
§Adjusted for age, race and sex.

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