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Our analysis identifies PA reservoirs in ICU sink drains that last nearly two years and transmission clusters that span multiple ICUs, indicating inter-hospital transmission or shared external reservoirs. Epidemiological linkage is identified for over 70% of genetically linked environment-patient strain pairs and 49% of genetically linked patient-patient strain pairs.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We find strong support for the use of a genetic threshold to identify epidemiologically linked strains. We find genomic evidence for persistent environmental reservoirs as sources of ICU-associated PA infection. 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