How is Multi-Drug Resistant Acinetobacter Baumannii Spread Through Hospitals?
It's not just unwashed hands nor even mostly unwashed hands. Gloves and gowns of healthcare workers are contaminated with A. baumanni more often than hands. Following contact with infected patients 38.7% of gloves/gowns were contaminated whereas hands only picked up the bacteria 4.5% of the time. A. baumannii looks to be more readily transmissible than even MRSA. See "Frequent Multidrug-Resitatant Acinetobacter Baumannii Contamination of Gloves, Gowns, and Hands of Healthcare Workers".
