We report the 3.78-Mbp high-quality draft assembly of the genome from a clinical isolate of Acinetobacter nosocomialis called strain M2 (previously known as Acinetobacter baumannii strain M2).

AIM The aim of this study was to examine the impact of antibiotic consumption on development of antimicrobial resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study was conducted in University Clinical Center of Sarajevo. In our retrospective study Acinetobacter baumannii isolated in period from July 1st 2009 to December 31st 2012. Isolates were detected from different clinical...

incidence of imipenem-resistant acinetobacter baumannii in a general intensive care unit (icu)

Acinetobacter baumannii is well known to clinicians as a cause of healthcareassociated infections [1]. Although biochemically indistinguishable from A. baumannii, Acinetobacter pittii and Acinetobacter nosocomialis are more recently described species that may also cause healthcare-associated infection and form part of the A. baumannii “complex.” The typical antibiotic-resistance phenotype of A....

Acinetobacter baumannii is most often responsible for hospital-acquired infections and is occasionally associated with community-acquired infections. We report two cases of A. baumannii endophthalmitis, one with endogenous endophthalmitis and the other with postkeratoplasty endophthalmitis. Although endophthalmitis is rare, ophthalmologists should be alert to the possibility of patients having ...

INTRODUCTION Neonatal mastitis is a rare infection. When it does occur, infants younger than 2 months of age are typically affected and the majority of cases are caused by Staphylococcus aureus. We present the first reported case of neonatal mastitis caused by Acinetobacter baumannii, an unusual organism for this type of infection. CASE PRESENTATION A 15-day-old full-term Caucasian male neona...

BACKGROUND Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii have been reported to cause outbreaks of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in several studies. The high prevalence of these pathogens prompted us to study the different strains of these pathogens prevailing in our intensive care units (ICUs) and determine the role of ICU environment and health-care workers (HCWs) in the transmiss...

We examined the clinical and epidemiological features of nosocomial bloodstream infections (BSIs) caused by Acinetobacter species and observed from 1 March 1995 through 28 February 1998 at 49 United States hospitals (SCOPE National Surveillance Program). Acinetobacter species were found in 24 hospitals (49%) and accounted for 1.5% of all nosocomial BSIs reported. One hundred twenty-nine isolate...

BACKGROUND Detection of Acinetobacter baumannii has been relying primarily on bacterial culture that often fails to return useful results in time. Although DNA-based assays are more sensitive than bacterial culture in detecting the pathogen, the molecular results are often inconsistent and challenged by doubts on false positives, such as those due to system- and environment-derived contaminatio...

introduction recently acinetobacter baumannii isolates have emerged as a problematic infectious agent that causes meningitis in neurosurgical patients. colistin has been used successfully for the treatment of a. baumannii meningitis but colistin resistant isolates have been reported worldwide. case presentation two isolates of a. baumannii were cultured during a five-day period from cerebrospin...