Settings: This study was conducted in a large tertiary care hospital of North India with an
eight-bed critical care unit. Materials and Methods: The respiratory samples …

To the Editor: Acquired metallo-ß-lactamase determinants in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and
other major bacterial pathogens are of concern for development of antimicrobial drug …

Using 58 isolates of Acinetobacter species recovered from a university hospital between
August 2004 and March 2005, we performed genomic identification by amplified rRNA gene …

Infections and outbreaks caused by multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (MDR-AB)
are prevalent and have been reported worldwide over the past 20 or more years. Class 1 …

To the Editor—The emergence of New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase–1 (NDM-1) in India,
Pakistan, and the UK has sparked great fear of the threat posed by resistant microbial strains …

Objectives: Acinetobacter baumannii is a significant pathogen in health care settings. In
recent years, an increase in carbapenem resistance among A. baumannii due to Ambler …

Seventy-two isolates of carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (CRPA) collected
through the Taiwan Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance (TSAR) program in 2000 and …

Background: Resistance to broad-spectrum beta-lactams, mediated by extended-spectrum
beta-lactamases (ESBL), AmpC beta-lactamase, and metallo-beta-lactamase (MBL) …

Background: Acinetobacter baumannii is an aerobic, gram-negative, glucose-nonfermenting
bacterium, which has emerged as a serious opportunistic pathogen. In recent years, the …

A total of 9082 clinical isolates of Enterobacteriaceae other than Klebsiella spp. collected in
1999 and 2000 at a university hospital in Taiwan were investigated for the production of …