Portrait of a killer: Uncovering resistance mechanisms and global spread of Acinetobacter baumannii

AK Cain, M Hamidian - PLoS Pathogens, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Antibiotic resistance is a growing global concern in the field of medicine as it renders
bacterial infections difficult to treat and often more severe. Acinetobacter baumannii is a …

Prevalence of Acinetobacter baumannii in Saudi Arabia: risk factors, antimicrobial resistance patterns and mechanisms of carbapenem resistance

ME Ibrahim - Annals of clinical microbiology and antimicrobials, 2019 - Springer
Acinetobacter baumannii is an important opportunistic pathogen due to its capabilities for
developing mechanisms of resistance to a wide range of antimicrobial agents including …

Insight into Acinetobacter baumannii: pathogenesis, global resistance, mechanisms of resistance, treatment options, and alternative modalities

M Asif, IA Alvi, SU Rehman - Infection and drug resistance, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Acinetobacter baumannii, once considered a low-category pathogen, has emerged as an
obstinate infectious agent. The scientific community is paying more attention to this …

Occurrence of Multidrug-Resistant Strains of Acinetobacter spp.: An Emerging Threat for Nosocomial-Borne Infection in Najran Region, KSA

AI Aedh, AD Al-Swedan, AA Mohammed… - Tropical Medicine and …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Multidrug-resistant strains are frequent causes of nosocomial infections. The majority of
nosocomial infections, particularly in critical care units (ICU), have been linked to A …

Emergence of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in hospitals in Pakistan

B Hasan, K Perveen, B Olsen… - Journal of medical …, 2014 - microbiologyresearch.org
The emergence of pan-resistance in bacterial pathogens poses a threat to human health.
Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii has emerged as a serious challenge …

Molecular Surveillance of Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii

AM AlAmri, AM AlQurayan, T Sebastian, AM AlNimr - Current Microbiology, 2020 - Springer
Acinetobacter baumannii, a bacterial strain which demonstrates an elevated wide range
multidrug resistance to commonly prescribed antibiotics, has been linked to recent major …

Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in Jordan

M Al-Tamimi, H Albalawi, M Alkhawaldeh, A Alazzam… - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Background: Acinetobacter baumannii is a common cause of multi-drug (MDR)-resistant
infections worldwide. The epidemiological and molecular characteristics of MDR-A …

A global view on carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii

C Müller, S Reuter, J Wille, K Xanthopoulou, D Stefanik… - Mbio, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
To give an update on the molecular epidemiology and global distribution of carbapenemase
encoding genes, we subjected 313 carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolated …

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence of multi drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in the clinical samples from Tertiary Care Hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan

S Begum, F Hasan, S Hussain… - Pakistan journal of …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background & Objectives: Acinetobacter baumannii can cause a wide range of infections,
including bacteremia, pneumonia, urinary tract infection, peritonitis, etc. This organism is …

[HTML][HTML] The clinical features and genomic epidemiology of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections at a tertiary hospital in Vietnam

DTH Diep, HM Tuan, KM Ngoc, C Vinh… - Journal of Global …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objectives To characterise the clinical features of Acinetobacter baumannii infections and
investigate the phylogenetic structure and transmission dynamics of A. baumannii in …