Acinetobacter baumannii Infections in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic

K Rangel, TPG Chagas, SG De-Simone - Pathogens, 2021 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has generated an overuse of antimicrobials in critically ill patients.
Acinetobacter baumannii frequently causes nosocomial infections, particularly in intensive …

Acinetobacter baumannii: an emerging opportunistic pathogen

A Howard, M O'Donoghue, A Feeney, RD Sleator - Virulence, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Acinetobacter baumannii is an opportunistic bacterial pathogen primarily associated with
hospital-acquired infections. The recent increase in incidence, largely associated with …

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 …

Acinetobacter baumannii: Emergence of a Successful Pathogen

AY Peleg, H Seifert, DL Paterson - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2008 - Am Soc Microbiol
Acinetobacter baumannii has emerged as a highly troublesome pathogen for many
institutions globally. As a consequence of its immense ability to acquire or upregulate …

Designing of multi-epitope peptide vaccine against Acinetobacter baumannii through combined immunoinformatics and protein interaction–based approaches

J Dey, SR Mahapatra, PK Singh… - Immunologic …, 2023 - Springer
Acinetobacter baumannii is one of the major pathogenic ESKAPE bacterium, which is
responsible for about more than 722,000 cases in a year, globally. Despite the alarming …

An increasing threat in hospitals: multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii

L Dijkshoorn, A Nemec, H Seifert - Nature reviews microbiology, 2007 - nature.com
Since the 1970s, the spread of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter strains among
critically ill, hospitalized patients, and subsequent epidemics, have become an increasing …

Clinical and pathophysiological overview of Acinetobacter infections: a century of challenges

D Wong, TB Nielsen, RA Bonomo… - Clinical microbiology …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Acinetobacter is a complex genus, and historically, there has been confusion about the
existence of multiple species. The species commonly cause nosocomial infections …

Acinetobacter infection

LS Munoz-Price, RA Weinstein - New England Journal of …, 2008 - Mass Medical Soc
The gram-negative coccobacillus acinetobacter, a pathogen once seen only in hot, humid
climates, has become an increasingly common nosocomial problem even in temperate …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical impact and pathogenicity of Acinetobacter

ML Joly-Guillou - Clinical microbiology and infection, 2005 - Elsevier
Members of the genus Acinetobacter have been implicated in a wide spectrum of infectious
diseases. Although this organism is associated primarily with nosocomial infections, it has …

The K1 Capsular Polysaccharide of Acinetobacter baumannii Strain 307-0294 Is a Major Virulence Factor

TA Russo, NR Luke, JM Beanan, R Olson… - Infection and …, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
Acinetobacter baumannii is a pathogen of increasing medical importance with a propensity
to be multidrug resistant, thereby making treatment challenging. Little is known of virulence …