Global Challenge of Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii

F Perez, AM Hujer, KM Hujer, BK Decker… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2007 - Am Soc Microbiol
… the clinic of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter baumannii is a frightening reality (112).
This review summarizes the worldwide emergence of antibiotic-resistant A. baumannii as a …

An increasing threat in hospitals: multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii

L Dijkshoorn, A Nemec, H Seifert - Nature reviews microbiology, 2007 - nature.com
Acinetobacter baumannii and the closely related genomic species 3 and 13TU are …
Acinetobacter, with the emphasis on the clinically most important species, Acinetobacter baumannii. …

[HTML][HTML] Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii

A Abbo, S Navon-Venezia… - Emerging infectious …, 2005 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
To understand the epidemiology of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter baumannii and
define individual risk factors for MDR, we used epidemiologic methods, performed organism …

[HTML][HTML] Risk factors for nosocomial imipenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections

G Baran, A Erbay, H Bodur, P Öngürü, E Akıncı… - International Journal of …, 2008 - Elsevier
Acinetobacter baumannii is frequently encountered in Turkish hospitals, and many isolates
… multi-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii clones in a burns unit: emergence of resistance to …

Acinetobacter baumannii: Epidemiology, Antimicrobial Resistance, and Treatment Options

GM Eliopoulos, LL Maragakis… - Clinical infectious …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
… -resistant Acinetobacter baumannii is recognized to be among the most difficult
antimicrobial-resistant gram-… Increasing antimicrobial resistance among Acinetobacter isolates has …

Bacteriophage-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii are resensitized to antimicrobials

F Gordillo Altamirano, JH Forsyth, R Patwa… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
… of Acinetobacter baumannii and established that the bacterial capsule is the receptor for these
phages. Phage-resistant mutants … The phage-resistant strains were resensitized to human …

Emergence, molecular mechanisms and global spread of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii

M Hamidian, SJ Nigro - Microbial genomics, 2019 - microbiologyresearch.org
Acinetobacter baumannii is a nosocomial pathogen that has emerged as a global threat
because of high levels of resistance to … proteins can cause carbapenem resistance, the main …

Acinetobacter baumannii Resistance: A Real Challenge for Clinicians

…, LA Padró Alonzo, A Rivera Reséndiz… - Antibiotics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Acinetobacter baumannii (named in honor of the American bacteriologists Paul and Linda
Baumann) is a Gram-negative, multidrug-resistant (MDR) … baumannii has developed a broad …

Current control and treatment of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections

DE Karageorgopoulos, ME Falagas - The Lancet infectious diseases, 2008 - thelancet.com
… Institutional outbreaks caused by Acinetobacter baumannii strains that have acquired multiple
mechanisms of antimicrobial drug resistance constitute a growing public-health problem. …

[HTML][HTML] Extensively drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii

Y Doi, S Husain, BA Potoski, KR McCurry… - Emerging infectious …, 2009 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… To the Editor: In the 1990s, patients infected with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus … infected
with gram-negative pathogens such as Acinetobacter baumannii (1). No new antimicrobial …