Acinetobacter baumannii has emerged as a medically important pathogen because of the increasing number of infections produced by this organism over the preceding three …
Microbes drive most ecosystems and are modulated by viruses that impact their lifespan, gene flow, and metabolic outputs. However, ecosystem-level impacts of viral community …
We present the M etagenomic I ntra-species D iversity A nalysis S ystem (MIDAS), which is an integrated computational pipeline for quantifying bacterial species abundance and strain …
The rapid expansion of Acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolates exhibiting resistance to carbapenems and most or all available antibiotics during the last decade is a worrying …
S Conlan, PJ Thomas, C Deming, M Park… - Science translational …, 2014 - science.org
Public health officials have raised concerns that plasmid transfer between Enterobacteriaceae species may spread resistance to carbapenems, an antibiotic class of …
During the past few decades Acinetobacter baumannii has evolved from being a commensal dweller of health-care facilities to constitute one of the most annoying pathogens …
LA Gallagher, E Ramage, EJ Weiss… - Journal of …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Acinetobacter baumannii is a Gram-negative bacterial pathogen notorious for causing serious nosocomial infections that resist antibiotic therapy. Research to identify factors …
R Lood, BY Winer, AJ Pelzek… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Acinetobacter baumannii, a Gram-negative multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacterium, is now recognized as one of the more common nosocomial pathogens. Because most clinical …
M Touchon, J Cury, EJ Yoon, L Krizova… - Genome biology and …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Bacterial genomics has greatly expanded our understanding of microdiversification patterns within a species, but analyses at higher taxonomical levels are necessary to understand and …