Insights into Acinetobacter baumannii pathogenicity

IUBMB Life

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1055-1060

  Cerqueira, Gustavo M ^a   Peleg, Anton Y ^a,b,c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

A. baumannii; Antibiotic resistance; Nosocomial infection; Pathogenesis; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADAPTATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; EPIDEMIC; HOSPITAL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; REVIEW; SURVIVAL;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; BIOFILMS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, ANIMAL; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84055190922     PISSN: 15216543     EISSN: 15216551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/iub.533     Document Type: Review

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