Multidrug-ResistantAcinetobacterspp.: Increasingly Problematic Nosocomial Pathogens
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Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter spp.: Increasingly Problematic Nosocomial Pathogens
Pathogenic bacteria have increasingly been resisting to antimicrobial therapy. Recently, resistance problem has been relatively much worsened in Gram-negative bacilli. Acinetobacter spp. are typical nosocomial pathogens causing infections and high mortality, almost exclusively in compromised hospital patients. Acinetobacter spp. are intrinsically less susceptible to antibiotics than Enterobacte...
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عنوان ژورنال: Yonsei Medical Journal
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0513-5796
DOI: 10.3349/ymj.2011.52.6.879