Healthcare‐associated infections due to multidrug‐resistant Gram‐negative bacteria (MDR‐
GNB) are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. These evidence‐based …

Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii) is undoubtedly one of the most successful
pathogens in the modern healthcare system. With invasive procedures, antibiotic use and …

Amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLPs) are polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-
based markers for the rapid screening of genetic diversity. AFLP methods rapidly generate …

Institutional outbreaks caused by Acinetobacter baumannii strains that have acquired
multiple mechanisms of antimicrobial drug resistance constitute a growing public-health …

Infections have been the major cause of disease throughout the history of human
populations. With the introduction of antibiotics, it was thought that this problem should …

This review of Acinetobacter outbreaks summarizes factors related to the presence and
recognition of organism transmission and describes the implementation of control and …

In the past decade, various methods have been developed for the identification and typing of
prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms at the DNA level. These methods differ in their …

An understanding of the epidemiology of multi-drug-resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter
baumannii and Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections is necessary in order to develop …

A retrospective case–control study was performed to assess risk factors and the clinical and
economic consequences associated with acquisition of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter …

The aim of the study was to investigate the genetic diversity of Acinetobacter baumannii
clinical strains that had previously been allocated to three major groups based on …