Doctors have difficulty treating these infections because Acinetobacter baumannii is often resistant to several antibiotics. They'll often send cultures to the microbiology laboratory and start ...

EUCAST [202] provide clinical breakpoints (Version 3.1, 2013) for Acinetobacter spp ... Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; EUCAST: European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility ...

A new study from Emory University addresses the growing global crisis of antibiotic-resistant infections. Many of these ...

The researchers also tested the antibiotic against 41 different strains of antibiotic-resistant Acinetobacter ... a month of their diagnosis. For the new study, Stokes and lab teamed up with ...

Acinetobacter baumannii is a human bacterial ... development of alternative treatments and prevention. Our laboratory has previously showed that one such environmental signal to which A. baumannii ...

The clinical burden of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii has worsened across U.S. hospitals in recent years, according to a study published April 17 in BMC Infectious Diseases.

New research has shown that a lack of dietary zinc can boost the chances of a lung infection caused by Acinetobacter baumannii bacteria; these pathogens are a major reason why people on ventilators ...

baumannii infections. The presence of resistance to these agents constrains therapeutic options. Despite the relative limitation in current evidence to guide therapy in these cases, combination ...