Uncovering the mechanisms of Acinetobacter baumannii virulence

CM Harding, SW Hennon, MF Feldman - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2018 - nature.com
Acinetobacter baumannii is a nosocomial pathogen that causes ventilator-associated as
well as bloodstream infections in critically ill patients, and the spread of multidrug-resistant …

Acinetobacter baumannii: evolution of a global pathogen

LCS Antunes, P Visca, KJ Towner - Pathogens and disease, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Acinetobacter baumannii is an opportunistic nosocomial pathogen and one of the six most
important multidrug resistant microorganisms in hospitals worldwide. This human pathogen …

Is there a specific ecological niche for electroactive microorganisms?

C Koch, F Harnisch - ChemElectroChem, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The core of primary microbial electrochemical technologies (METs) is the ability of the
electroactive microorganisms to interact with electrodes via extracellular electron transfer …

Acinetobacter baumannii: human infections, factors contributing to pathogenesis and animal models

MJ McConnell, L Actis, J Pachón - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Acinetobacter baumannii has emerged as a medically important pathogen because of the
increasing number of infections produced by this organism over the preceding three …

Acinetobacter baumannii: Emergence of a Successful Pathogen

AY Peleg, H Seifert, DL Paterson - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2008 - Am Soc Microbiol
Acinetobacter baumannii has emerged as a highly troublesome pathogen for many
institutions globally. As a consequence of its immense ability to acquire or upregulate …

AFLP: a new technique for DNA fingerprinting

P Vos, R Hogers, M Bleeker, M Reijans… - Nucleic acids …, 1995 - academic.oup.com
A novel DNA fingerprinting technique called AFLP is described. The AFLP technique is
based on the selective PCR amplification of restriction fragments from a total digest of …

[HTML][HTML] It is the time for quorum sensing inhibition as alternative strategy of antimicrobial therapy

NG Naga, DE El-Badan, KM Ghanem… - Cell Communication and …, 2023 - Springer
Multiple drug resistance poses a significant threat to public health worldwide, with a
substantial increase in morbidity and mortality rates. Consequently, searching for novel …

[HTML][HTML] Multidrug resistant acinetobacter

V Manchanda, S Sanchaita… - Journal of global infectious …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Emergence and spread of Acinetobacter species, resistant to most of the available
antimicrobial agents, is an area of great concern. It is now being frequently associated with …

[HTML][HTML] An increasing threat in hospitals: multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii

L Dijkshoorn, A Nemec, H Seifert - Nature reviews microbiology, 2007 - nature.com
Since the 1970s, the spread of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter strains among
critically ill, hospitalized patients, and subsequent epidemics, have become an increasing …

[HTML][HTML] The Population Structure of Acinetobacter baumannii: Expanding Multiresistant Clones from an Ancestral Susceptible Genetic Pool

L Diancourt, V Passet, A Nemec, L Dijkshoorn… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Outbreaks of hospital infections caused by multidrug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii
strains are of increasing concern worldwide. Although it has been reported that particular …