Human Infection with Schineria larvae

baumannii isolate also being resistant to carbapenems. This resistance was likely acquired in vivo under imipenem treatment, but the susceptible strain was not available for strain comparison. This is also the first description of a PER-1 A. baumannii isolate from Russia, a country from which little epidemiologic data on antimicrobial drug resistance are available, except for the emergence of ESBLs of CTX-M type in Enterobacteriaceae (10). This study highlights the importance of international patient transfer in the spread of antimicrobial drug resistance, thus emphasizing the need for hospitals to isolate and screen for multidrug-resistant pathogens in all patients admitted to hospitals from foreign countries. This is particularly critical when the foreign country is known for a high prevalence of multidrug-resistant bacteria or when no antimicrobial drug resistance data are available.