[HTML][HTML] Antimicrobial resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii: From bench to bedside

MF Lin, CY Lan - World Journal of Clinical Cases: WJCC, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii) is undoubtedly one of the most successful
pathogens in the modern healthcare system. With invasive procedures, antibiotic use and …

Acinetobacter baumannii: human infections, factors contributing to pathogenesis and animal models

MJ McConnell, L Actis, J Pachón - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Acinetobacter baumannii has emerged as a medically important pathogen because of the
increasing number of infections produced by this organism over the preceding three …

Marine DNA viral macro-and microdiversity from pole to pole

AC Gregory, AA Zayed, N Conceição-Neto… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
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 …

An integrated metagenomics pipeline for strain profiling reveals novel patterns of bacterial transmission and biogeography

S Nayfach, B Rodriguez-Mueller, N Garud… - Genome …, 2016 - genome.cshlp.org
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 …

Global evolution of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii clonal lineages

R Zarrilli, S Pournaras, M Giannouli… - International journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
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 …

Single-molecule sequencing to track plasmid diversity of hospital-associated carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae

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 …

The Acinetobacter baumannii Oxymoron: Commensal Hospital Dweller Turned Pan-Drug-Resistant Menace

I Roca, P Espinal, X Vila-Farrés, J Vila - Frontiers in microbiology, 2012 - frontiersin.org
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 …

Resources for genetic and genomic analysis of emerging pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii

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 …

Novel phage lysin capable of killing the multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacterium Acinetobacter baumannii in a mouse bacteremia model

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 …

The Genomic Diversification of the Whole Acinetobacter Genus: Origins, Mechanisms, and Consequences

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 …