The outstanding ability of Acinetobacter baumannii to cause outbreaks and acquire
multidrug resistance motivated the development of a plethora of typing techniques, which …

Acinetobacter baumannii is one of the most important nosocomial pathogens distributed
worldwide. Due to its multidrug-resistance and the propensity for the epidemic spread, the …

Modern agriculture has dramatically changed the distribution of animal species on Earth.
Changes to host ecology have a major impact on the microbiota, potentially increasing the …

Abstract The Gram-negative Acinetobacter genus has several species of clear medical
relevance. Many fully sequenced genomes belonging to the genus have been published in …

Antimicrobial resistance (AR) is a major global threat to public health. Understanding the
population dynamics of AR is critical to restrain and control this issue. However, no study …

Objective To describe the clinical features, outcomes, and molecular epidemiology of an
outbreak of multidrug resistant (MDR) A. baumannii. Methods We performed a retrospective …

Much knowledge about bacteriophages has been obtained via genomics and
metagenomics over the last decades. However, most studies dealing with prophage …

Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii is one of the most prominent human
pathogens, and it is an important cause of infections in intensive care units in hospitals all …

The Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-baumannii (Acb) complex is regarded as a group of
phenotypically indistinguishable opportunistic pathogens responsible for mainly causing …

Multilocus sequence typing has been useful for genotyping pathogens in surveillance and
epidemiologic studies. However, it cannot reflect the true relationships of isolates for species …