Imipenem Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii
A gloves associated outbreak of imipenem resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in an intensive care unit in Guangdong, China
... Background: Imipenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (IRAB) is an important cause of hospital-acquired infection. We aimed to describe an outbreak of IRAB infection and to investigate its ...
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Outbreaks of Imipenem Resistant Acinetobacter Baumannii Producing OXA 23 β Lactamase in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Korea
... 2006, imipenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates have increased in Kyung Hee University Hospital in Seoul, ...to imipenem by producing OXA-23 carbapenemase and they might have ...
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Dissemination of imipenem resistant Acinetobacter baumannii with new plasmid borne bla OXA 72 in Taiwan
... Bacterial identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing Two hundred and ninety-one non-repetitive isolates of A. baumannii were retrospectively collected from 10 teaching hospitals from different ...
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Investigation of a Nosocomial Outbreak of Imipenem Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Producing the OXA 23 β Lactamase in Korea
... without imipenem at 2 or 10 ...rifampin- resistant A. baumannii (YMC02/8/P535) as the ...with imipenem (1 mg/liter) to inhibit the growth of the recipient ...
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Occurrence of Carbapenem Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Clones at Multiple Hospitals in London and Southeast England
... notably resistant. Resistance to imipenem and meropenem was more consistent than in the SE clone (Table 2) and was unequivocal under British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy criteria (MIC of ⬎ 4 ...
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Emerging threat of multidrug resistant bugs – Acinetobacter calcoaceticus baumannii complex and Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus
... For disk susceptibility testing, penicillin, amoxycillin, oxacillin, ciprofloxacin, cotrimoxazole, cephalexin, gentami- cin, erythromycin, clindamycin, teicoplanin, vancomycin, amoxicillin-clavulanate, cloxacillin, ...
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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 ...multidrug resistant if it is resistant to three or more ...
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Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from Egypt
... Seventy four carbapenem-resistant isolates were screened for carbapenemase production by a number of phenotypic methods (MHT, CIM, CDT, CarbAci- neto NP test and boronic acid disc test) (Table 3). Re- garding MHT, ...
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Clinical Outcomes of Tigecycline in the Treatment of Multidrug Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Infection
... Drug susceptibility test revealed resistance to imipenem and meropenem in 85% (22/27) and 81% (23/27) of cases, re- spectively. Resistance to colistin was observed in 22.2% (6/27, 5 of resistance and 1 of ...
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An investigation of drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections in a comprehensive hospital of East China
... to imipenem, ampi- cillin/sulbactam, ceftazidime, cefepime, aztreonam, and ciprofloxacin were more than 90% in multidrug-resistant ...A. baumannii strains has increased recently ...A. ...
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Molecular and Epidemiological Characterization of Carbapenem Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in Non Tertiary Korean Hospitals
... of imipenem resistance on mortality in patients with Aci- netobacter ...between Acinetobacter baumannii and Acinetobacter ge- nomic species ...
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Dissemination of a Clone of Unusual Phenotype of Pandrug Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii at a University Hospital in Taiwan
... A. baumannii isolates account for 5% of all clinical ...A. baumannii FIG. 1. Enhanced zone of inhibition between imipenem (IPM) and ampicillin-sulbactam (SAM) disks for the PDRABup ...A. ...
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Effects of a combination of amlodipine and imipenem on 42 clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii obtained from a teaching hospital in Guangzhou, China
... to imipenem was ...nonrepetitive imipenem-resistant clinical isolates of Acinetobacter ...A. baumannii resistance to imipenem in our ...
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Dissemination of multidrug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in various hospitals of Antananarivo Madagascar
... ious clinics of Madagascar. This hypothesis has already been evoked to explain the spread of clonal strains between different hospitals [13,35]. If poor sanitary con- ditions probably explain how these CRAB clones can ...
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Developments for the Treatment of Invasive Infections Due to Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii
... A. baumannii isolates [31-33]. When colistin MICs to A. baumannii approach the susceptible breakpoint (< 2 μg/ mL, see Table 2), attaining adequate serum concentrations in subjects with normal renal ...
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Detection of antibiotic resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in various hospital environments: potential sources for transmission of Acinetobacter infections
... A. baumannii isolates showed the highest resistance to- wards ceftazidime ...A. baumannii are resist- ant to cephalosporins such as ceftazidime ...A. baumannii iso- lates were resistant to ...
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Safety and effectiveness of colistin compared with tobramycin for multi drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections
... Acinetobacter baumannii was tested for susceptibility to piperacillin-tazobactam, colistin, ceftazidime, cefepime, imipenem, meropenem, gentamicin, amikacin, tobramy- cin and ofloxacin/ciprofloxacin ...
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Molecular Detection of Multi-drug Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii from Patients Wounds
... Aztreonam, Imipenem, Cefepime and Piperacillin and other 6 antibiotics were non ESBLs represented by Aminoglycoside (Amikacin, Gentamicin), Trimethoprim sulfa- methoxazol and Fluoroquinolone (Ciprofloxacin, ...
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In-vitro activity of polymyxin B in combination with imipenem, rifampicin and azithromycin versus multidrug resistant strains of Acinetobacter baumannii producing OXA-23 carbapenemases
... multi-drug resistant strains in the United Kingdom this has implications for the use and selection of combination antimicrobial regimens for empirical treatment of these ...uniformly resistant to ...
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Phenotypic and molecular characterisations of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii strains isolated in Madagascar
... to imipenem and meropenem was determined by Etests (BioMerieux, Marcy l’Etoile, France) according to the manufacturer’ s instructions and ACFMS breakpoints (strains displaying MICs > 8 mg/L for imipe- nem and ...
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