A serious epidemic of Acinetobacter baumannii resistant to imipenem occurred in the
surgical intensive care unit of the hospital Charles-Nicolle in Tunis during February 1994 …

Forty-two strains of Acinetobacter baumannii were isolated from 15 patients hospitalized in a
French intensive care unit. An epidemiological study based on the typing of these isolates …

A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique was applied to the fingerprinting of different
strains of Acinetobacter baumannii from a cluster of patients infected or colonized with the …

ABSTRACT From June to November 1994 (period 1) and from February to June 1995
(period 2), multiresistant Acinetobacter baumannii strains were isolated in intensive care …

An outbreak of Acinetobacter baumannii infection in 3 intensive care units of the Charles
Nicolle Hospital, Tunisia, during March-July 2005, was investigated. Antimicrobial …

An epidemiological survey was carried out over a one-week period to assess the spread of
Acinetobacter baumannii in a medical intensive care unit. Fifty strains were isolated from …

A. baumannii was isolated from 32 patients in 3 intensive care units (ICUs) in Turkey
between June 1996 and May 1997. Of these, 13 were recovered from blood, 14 from …

Acinetobacter baumannii is an important nosocomial pathogen, especially in
immunocomprimised patients and those hospitalized in intensive care units. After the first …

The incidence of nosocomial infections caused by Acinetobacter calcoaceticus var.
anitratus, now designated as A. baumannii, has been steadily rising in recent years (Mayer …

Multi-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates obtained from 13 hospitalized patients over
a six-month period were evaluated. One patient had an isolate susceptible only to …