Copyright: © 2014 Tiwari V. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Acinetobacter baumannii is one of the most important opportunistic pathogens described by Infectious Disease Society of America [1]. ...

BACKGROUND Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii), a gram-negative bacterium, has now become an important hospital pathogen, which causes various serious nosocomial infections worldwide. Bacterial meningitis is a common complication after neurosurgical operation, and the percentage of A. baumannii meningitis is growing, especially the one resisting multiple drugs. METHOD We retrospectively re...

An Acinetobacter baumannii isolate survived desiccation beyond 30 days and an Acinetobacter lwoYi isolate up to 21 days. For both species, desiccation resulted in a significant increase in the proportion of round cells (A baumannii, 40% to 80%; A lwoYi, 51% to 63%) and a significant decrease in rod shaped cells (A baumannii, 58% to 13%; A lwoYi, 46% to 34%). Electronmicroscopic examination show...

Acinetobacter spp. occur naturally in many different habitats, including food, soil, and surface waters. In clinical settings, Acinetobacter poses an increasing health problem, causing infections with limited to no antibiotic therapeutic options left. The presence of human generated multidrug resistant strains is well documented but the extent to how widely they are distributed within the Acine...

Using a repetitive-sequence-based (rep)-PCR (DiversiLab), we have molecularly typed Acinetobacter nosocomial bloodstream isolates (Acinetobacter baumannii [n = 187], Acinetobacter pittii [n = 23], and Acinetobacter nosocomialis [n = 61]) obtained from patients hospitalized in U.S. hospitals over a 10-year period (1995-2004) during a nationwide surveillance study (Surveillance and Control of Pat...

BACKGROUND Acinetobacter baumannii is the most prevalent strain in hospitals and different clinical departments. OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to investigate the genetic characteristics and resistance mechanisms of A. baumannii isolated from clinical samples in Shaoxing people's hospital affiliated to Zhejiang University, Shaoxing, China. PATIENTS AND METHODS Acinetobacter baumannii st...

Antimicrobial resistance is frequently associated with clinical use of antibiotics. This close association suggests that efforts to manage our use of these potent agents can have an impact on the prevalence of resistance. Unfortunately, one size does not fit all when considering the response of bacterial pathogens to antimicrobial exposure. Measures that may prevent resistance in some species (...

An understanding of why certain Acinetobacter species are more successful in causing nosocomial infections, transmission and epidemic spread in healthcare institutions compared with other species is lacking. We used genomic, phenotypic and virulence studies to identify differences between Acinetobacter species. Fourteen strains representing nine species were examined. Genomic analysis of six st...

Background: Acinetobacter baumannii is the most prevalent strain in hospitals and different clinical departments. Objectives: The current study aimed to investigate the genetic characteristics and resistance mechanisms of A. baumannii isolated from clinical samples in Shaoxing people’s hospital affiliated to Zhejiang University, Shaoxing, China. Patients and Methods: Acinetobacter baumannii str...