Acinetobacter baumannii is a Gram-negative coccobacillus with exceptional survival skills in
an unfavorable environment and the ability to rapidly acquire antibiotic resistance, making it …

Acinetobacter baumannii is a dangerous bacterial pathogen possessing the ability to persist
on various surfaces, especially in clinical settings, and to rapidly acquire the resistance to a …

Background Acinetobacter baumannii is a notorious opportunistic pathogen mainly
associated with hospital-acquired infections. Studies on the clonal relatedness of isolates …

The emergence of Acinetobacter baumannii during recent decades as an important
nosocomial pathogen responsible of worldwide, intensively documented, outbreaks has …

To further expand the limited multilocus sequence typing (MLST) database for Acinetobacter
baumannii, 53 clinical isolates from various outbreaks in Europe and the USA, collected …

This study used a diverse collection of epidemiologically unrelated Acinetobacter baumannii
isolates to compare the robustness of a multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme, based …

Acinetobacter baumannii is a very important human pathogen. Nonetheless, we know very
little about nonhuman isolates of A. baumannii. Here, we determine the genomic identity of …

Outbreaks of hospital infections caused by multidrug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii
strains are of increasing concern worldwide. Although it has been reported that particular …

Acinetobacter baumannii is an opportunistic pathogen responsible for nosocomial
infections, however the origins of these bacteria remain unclear. Sixteen A. baumannii …

Outbreak strains of Acinetobacter baumannii are highly clonal, and cross-infection
investigations can be difficult. We sought targets based on AbaR resistance islands and on …