The rising incidence of Acinetobacter infection in the intensive care unit (ICU) causes a great concern to all clinicians and intensivists worldwide due to their extraordinary ability to develop resistance to multiple classes of antibiotics. Acinetobacter can infect virtually any body site, particularly the lower respiratory tract, the bloodstream, and the urinary tract. Infection is mainly rel...

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A total of 189 Acinetobacter baumannii isolates were collected in 2011 from a teaching hospital in Chongqing, China. Susceptibility data showed strains carrying integrons were significantly more resistant to all tested antibiotics that strains lacking integrons. Five types of gene cassettes belonging to class I integrons were identified in this study, and for the first time two types of gene ca...

background and objectives: acinetobacter spp. are important causes of nosocomial infections. they possess various antibiotic resistance mechanisms including extended spectrum beta lactamases (esbls). the aim of this study was to determine antibiotic resistance profile of acinetobacter clinical isolates especially among esbl-producing strains and to investigate the antimicrobial effects of oleo-...

INTRODUCTION Antibiotic resistance in gram-negative bacilli is an area of increasing importance. This prospective study was performed to survey antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli (E. coli), Klebsiella spp., Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter spp. over a 1-year period. MATERIALS AND METHODS Non-duplicate isolates of E. coli, Klebsiella spp., P. aeruginosa and Acinetobacter spp. we...

We present new high resolution (R ≃ 21, 000) near-infrared (λ = 2μm) spectroscopic observations of a sample of Class I and flat-spectrum protostellar objects in the ρ Ophiuchi dark cloud. None of the five Class I spectra show CO v = 0 – 2 absorption features, consistent with high K-band continuum veilings, 4 . rk . 20 and fast stellar rotation, assuming that the underlying protostellar photosph...

The antibiogram of Acinetobacter isolates from freshwater and soil samples in Alice and Fort Beaufort towns in Nkonkobe Municipality, South Africa were assessed for their extended betalactamase (ESBL) spectrum. Eighty-six Acinetobacter isolates were obtained from the 50 samples of soil and 50 samples of water (25 in each location) analysed. The resistance of the Acinetobacter isolates ranged be...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Acinetobacter spp. are important causes of nosocomial infections. They possess various antibiotic resistance mechanisms including extended spectrum beta lactamases (ESBLs). The aim of this study was to determine antibiotic resistance profile of Acinetobacter clinical isolates especially among ESBL-producing strains and to investigate the antimicrobial effects of oleo-g...

This study aimed to explore the diversity of river water Acinetobacter populations using culture-dependent and -independent methods. Pyrosequencing indicated that 1.5% of the total sequences from Qiandeng River water were classified as Acinetobacter. Twelve Acinetobacter strains were isolated from three different sampling sites of the Qiandeng River. Based on culture-dependent methods, A. johns...