Antibiotic resistance is the most challenging clinical and public health problem. Despite of
living in the era of novel technologies in biomedical research, many of untreatable infectious …

The genus Acinetobacter is a major cause of nosocomial infections; it is increasingly being
associated with various epidemics and has become a widespread concern in a variety of …

Healthcare‐associated infections due to multidrug‐resistant Gram‐negative bacteria (MDR‐
GNB) are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. These evidence‐based …

Acinetobacter baumannii has emerged as a highly troublesome pathogen for many
institutions globally. As a consequence of its immense ability to acquire or upregulate …

We analyzed data from the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) System from
1986–2003 to determine the epidemiology of gram-negative bacilli in intensive care units …

Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii is recognized to be among the most difficult
antimicrobial-resistant gram-negative bacilli to control and treat. Increasing antimicrobial …

Institutional outbreaks caused by Acinetobacter baumannii strains that have acquired
multiple mechanisms of antimicrobial drug resistance constitute a growing public-health …

Military medical facilities treating patients injured in Iraq and Afghanistan have identified a
large number of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter baumannii isolates. In order to …

Different definitions of the terms multidrug-resistant (MDR) and pandrug-resistant (PDR)
Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas aeruginosa have been used in the biomedical …

Acinetobacter baumannii is a Gram-negative, opportunistic pathogen, causing severe
infections difficult to treat. The A. baumannii infection rate has increased year by year in …