Background: Acinetobacter baumannii has increasingly become one of the most common
pathogens causing ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Objectives: In the present study …

Acinetobacter baumannii is an important opportunistic pathogen that mainly infects critically
patients in intensive care units (ICU). The production of plasmid-mediated extended …

Background: Acinetobacter baumannii as the most important nosocomial pathogen can
cause various types of clinical infections. Multidrug resistance in A. baumannii strains has …

A 2-year prospective study carried out on ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) patients in
the intensive care unit at a tertiary care hospital, Hail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) …

Objective To determine the antimicrobial susceptibility patterns, the frequency of integrons
and associated gene cassettes in Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii) strains isolated …

Background. We investigated the integron types and their relation with antibiotic resistance
among A. baumannii isolates collected from intensive care unit patients, Babol, north of Iran …

Background Acinetobacter baumannii is an opportunistic pathogen causing various
nosocomial infections. The spread of multidrug-resistant A. baumannii is a major public …

Background Acinetobacter baumannii is a common opportunistic pathogen that causes
major nosocomial infections in hospitals. In this study, we hypothesized a high prevalence of …

Rationale Acinetobacter baumannii is one of the antibiotic-resistant superbugs that
threatens hospitalized patients. Emergence and spread of the multidrug-resistant (MDR) and …

Materials and Methods: 100 isolates of A. baumannii were gathered since 2012-2013 from
ICU of three educational hospitals of Hamadan, Iran. After phenotypic identification of …