Out of the 96 isolates, 25 strains were identified as Acinetobacter baumannii and selected for the study.

The bacteria, Acinetobacter baumannii, are not unique to Iraq.

Key words: genotypic diversity, phenotypic diversity, crude oil, Acinetobacter baumannii.

She is currently working on her thesis about the topic Acinetobacter baumannii that can cause infected wounds, respiratory diseases and blood poisoning.

The so-called superbug is Acinetobacter Baumannii, which is resistant to most antibiotics, the report said.

Acinetobacter baumannii is a typically short, almost round, rod-shaped (coccobacillus) Gram-negative bacterium.

Acinetobacter baumannii poses a particular problem because it’s a hardy strain that can survive for days, even months on inanimate surfaces, Olmsted said.

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Use of colistin to treat Acinetobacter baumannii infections has, as with other antibiotics, led to the development of resistant bacterial strains.

Carbapenems are already obsolete for a common Intensive Care Unit infection, Acinetobacter baumannii.

Not until the day Mr. Armbruster died did a laboratory culture identify the organism that had infected him: Acinetobacter baumannii.

Acinetobacter baumannii is a species of pathogenic bacteria, referred to as an aerobic gram-negative bacterium, which is resistant to most antibiotics.

Nearly half of hospital rooms of patients infected with drug-resistant strains of Acinetobacter baumannii are contaminated with the bacteria, a small new survey shows.

Acinetobacter species are a key source of infection in debilitated patients in the hospital, in particular the species Acinetobacter baumannii.

Acinetobacter baumannii was isolated from a patient in a burn unit and two clinical strains of MTB were collected and tested.

MRAB, or Multi-Resistant Acinetobacter Baumannii, only affects people who are already sick.

Gram-negative bacteria associated with hospital-acquired infections include Acinetobacter baumannii, which cause bacteremia, secondary meningitis, and ventilator-associated pneumonia in hospital intensive-care units.

It was developed in response to the growing rate of Antibiotic resistance in bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus, Acinetobacter baumannii, and E. coli.

The germ that killed Burns, Acinetobacter baumannii, is nicknamed "Iraqibacter" because it has caused deadly infections in soldiers wounded in Iraq.

Acinetobacter baumannii infections, which plague wounded soldiers, are also probably caused by biofilms, as are more mundane afflictions such as sinusitis and ear infections.

Cheryl Yorke said the MRAB (Multi-Resistant Acinetobacter Baumannii) infection had been the last thing her son needed.

Isolates of Vibrio cholerae, Acinetobacter baumannii, and Aeromonas hydrophila encoding CTX-M-ases have also been reported.

Acinetobacter baumannii has been found in military hospitals in Germany, the Washington, D.C., area and Texas -- the primary destinations of wounded service members from the two war zones.

Species targeted in that earlier research included Acinetobacter baumannii, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Pseudomas spp., all of which are commonly encountered in health care settings.