Acinetobacter Baumannii
Epidemiological Study of an Acinetobacter baumannii Outbreak by Using a Combination of Antibiotyping and Ribotyping
... multiresistant Acinetobacter baumannii strains were isolated in intensive care units and surgical wards of the Amiens Teaching Hospital Center (Amiens, ...
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Screening for Acinetobacter baumannii Colonization by Use of Sponges
... A. baumannii, defined by a positive clinical culture for this organism as defined by resistance to more than two classes of antimicrobials, participated in the ...Leeds Acinetobacter medium (mLAM) agar ...
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ISOLATION AND CULTURE OF ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII
... Production of L-asparaginase by immobilized cells of Acinetobacter baumannii S4 was investigating in repeated batch process. As indicated by (Table-7) it was observed that L- asparaginase production by ...
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Multidrug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii: a descriptive study in a city hospital
... Acinetobacter baumannii has become an important pathogen in recent years and has been shown to increase morbidity and mortality [1-3]. The definition of MRAB varies in the literature, but several ...
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Transcriptome Remodeling of Acinetobacter baumannii during Infection and Treatment
... ABSTRACT Acinetobacter baumannii is an increasingly common multidrug-resistant pathogen in health care ...A. baumannii isolates from eight patients were analyzed by RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) to ...
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Molecular Epidemiology of Carbapenem Nonsusceptible Acinetobacter baumannii in the United States
... decade, Acinetobacter baumannii has emerged to become an important cause of nosocomial infections in many parts of the world ...A. baumannii isolates surveyed from ...A. baumannii infections ...
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Heteroresistance to Meropenem in Carbapenem Susceptible Acinetobacter baumannii
... The characteristics of carbapenem heteroresistance were studied in 14 apparently carbapenem-susceptible Acinetobacter baumannii isolates. The MICs for carbapenems were determined, and the isolates were ...
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Clonal Diversity of Nosocomial Epidemic Acinetobacter baumannii Strains Isolated in Spain
... Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii is a bacterium frequently endemic in certain hospital wards and is responsible for numerous nosocomial outbreaks around the world (3, 23, ...A. baumannii ...
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Inhibition of Acinetobacter baumannii Biofilm Formation by Methanolic Extract of Nothoscordum bivalve
... Acinetobacter baumannii is usually found in hospitable environments, affecting immunocompromised patients in intensive care units ...A. baumannii present a defense mechanism, which is the ability to ...
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on neutrophil apoptosis in rates with acinetobacter baumannii pneumonia
... Acinetobacter baumannii is a type of opportu- nistic pathogen widely distributed in nature, with capsule and pilli but lacking flagella and ...A. baumannii can leads to respiratory infection, sepsis, ...
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Influence of Cold Atmospheric Plasma on Acinetobacter baumannii
... Acinetobacter baumannii is an aerobic, non- fermented Gram-negative coccobacilli, it is grown well on solid media with smooth grayish white colonies. It is identified as one of the main multidrug ...
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Comparison of outbreak and nonoutbreak Acinetobacter baumannii strains by genotypic and phenotypic methods
... Thirty-one Acinetobacter baumannii strains, comprising 14 strains from 14 outbreaks in different northwest- ern European cities and 17 sporadic strains, were compared by investigating various properties of ...
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Mechanisms Efflux Pumps of Acinetobacter baumannii (MDR): Increasing Resistance to Antibiotics
... Acinetobacter baumannii has greatly increased its degree of resistance to be- come multidrug resistant (MDR) over the past 30 years and is on the red line of the most widely replicated bacteria according to ...
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Aminoglycoside Resistance and Susceptibility Testing Errors in Acinetobacter baumannii calcoaceticus Complex
... the Acinetobacter baumannii-calcoaceticus complex to amikacin, gentamicin, and tobramycin using disk diffusion, Etest, as well as the Phoenix, Vitek 2, and MicroScan automated systems, and compared the ...
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Identification of Acinetobacter Species and Genotyping of Acinetobacter baumannii by Multilocus PCR and Mass Spectrometry
... genus Acinetobacter are ubiquitous in soil and water and are an important cause of nosocomial ...genotype Acinetobacter isolates to determine epidemiology and clonality during infectious ...the ...
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Surveillance Cultures and Duration of Carriage of Multidrug Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii
... (MDR) Acinetobacter baumannii is the main measure to prevent its ...A. baumannii was previously isolated: (i) those with recent clinical isolation ( < 10 days) and (ii) those with remote clinical ...
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Horizontal Gene Transfer in a Polyclonal Outbreak of Carbapenem Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii
... of Acinetobacter baumannii and Acinetobacter genomic species 3 and 13TU (the three most clinically important members of the genus) and the environ- mental species ...
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Towards an explanation for the success of Acinetobacter baumannii in the human host
... Anna de Breij was born on the 9th of December 1982 in The Hague, the Netherlands. In 2001 she passed her secondary school exam at the Gymnasium Haganum in The Hague and started studying Biology at the University of ...
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Identification of Acinetobacter Isolates from Species Belonging to the Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-Acinetobacter baumannii Complex with Monoclonal Antibodies Specific for O Antigens of Their Lipopolysaccharides
... of Acinetobacter strains, particularly those belonging to the Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-Acinetobacter baumannii complex, is often hindered by their close geno- and phenotypic relation- ...
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Use of the Accessory Genome for Characterization and Typing of Acinetobacter baumannii
... Acinetobacter baumannii has emerged as an important nos- ocomial pathogen, particularly in intensive care units, not least because it is often associated with resistance to the vast ma- jority of ...
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