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Acinetobacter species

 

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Review Article: Brook Army Medical Center. Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter Extremity Infections in Soldiers. Emerg Infect Dis, Aug 2005.

Review Article: Perez F, Hujer AM, et al. Global Challenge of Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2007 Oct;51:3471-84.

Review Article: Raad, I., Hanna, H. and Maki, D. Intravascular Catheter-related Infections: Advances in Diagnosis, Prevention and Management. The LANCET Infectious Diseases 2007; Vol.7, Issue 10, 645-657. 

Gabriel M. Ortiz and David Graham:  Acinetobacter in military personnel

Bassetti M, Repetto E.  Colistin and rifampicin in the treatment of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections.  J Antimicrob Chemother 2008 Jan 3 [Epub ahead of print]

Falagas ME, Karveli EA, et al. Community-Acquired Acinetobacter Infections. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2007 Dec;26:857-68.

Kim BN et al. Management of Meningitis due to Antibiotic-resistant Acinetobacter species.Lancet Infect Dis. 2009 Apr;9(4):245-55. Schafer JJ, Goff DA, et al.  Early experience with tigecycline for ventilator-associated pneumonia and bacteremia caused by multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumanii.  Pharmacotherapy 2007;27(7):980-987.

Sebeny PJ, Riddle MS, Petersen K. Acinetobacter baumannii skin and soft-tissue infection associated with war trauma.Clin Infect Dis. 2008 Aug 15;47(4):444-9.

Gordon NC and Wareham DW. A Review of Clinical and Microbiological Outcomes Following Treatment of Infections Involving Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii with Tigecycline. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2009 Jan 21. [Epub ahead of print]

Perez F, Hujer AM, et al. Global Challenge of Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2007 Oct;51:3471-84.

Sopirala MM, et al.  Synergy Testing by Etest, Microdilution Checkerboard, and Time-Kill Methods for Pan-Drug-Resistant Aceintobacter baumannii.  Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2010;54:4678-4683.

 

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Kevin J. Towner

 

 

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  Eugenie Bergogne-Berezin, M.D.

 

 

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