Acinetobacter infection - An emerging threat to human health

IUBMB Life

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1048-1054

  Visca, Paolo ^a   Seifert, Harald ^b   Towner, Kevin J ^c  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acinetobacter; Clinical importance; Epidemiology; Infections; Population structure; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTION; ACINETOBACTER NOSOCOMIALIS; ACINETOBACTER PITTII; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CATHETER INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; GENUS; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; REVIEW; THREAT;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84055217148     PISSN: 15216543     EISSN: 15216551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/iub.534     Document Type: Review

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