ABSTRACT Background and Objectives: Microorganisms isolated in Intensive Care Unit
(ICU) setting change over time and may be different in different hospitals. For empiric …

Background: Acinetobacter has gained importance as an emerging multi drug resistant
nosocomial pathogen among non fermenting aerobic gram negative bacteria, especially in …

Background: The rising incidence. of acinetobacter infection in the intensive care units
[1CUs] causes a great concern to all clinicians worldwide. Acinetobacter species have an …

Background: Acinetobacter species (spp.) have unique ability to survive in the hospital
environments for long periods. This feature increases the rate of acquisition of infection of …

To isolate the Acinetobacter species and their antimicrobial resistance pattern. The study
was done for a period of one year from July 2013 to June 2014. A total number of 452 …

Multidrug resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter spp. has emerged as an important cause of
nosocomial infections with increased morbidity and mortality, evidently frequent in intensive …

Background: Acinetobacter infections are of nosocomial infections with a significant increase
in antibiotic resistance in recent years. Since the infection in hospitalized patients, especially …

Objective: Acinetobacter species lead to extremely serious infections, particularly in
hospitalized patients, and in patients with impaired host defense. The high rates of …

Objective: to isolate Acinetobacter species and to evaluate its antibiotic susceptibility pattern
in all types of clinical specimens of critically ill patients of Jinnah Hospital, Lahore. Study …

BACKGROUND: Acinetobacter species are one of the most frequent nosocomial pathogen
causing bacteremia, urinary tract infection, secondary meningitis, skin and soft tissue …