Acinetobacter baumannii: Factors Involved in its High Adaptability to Adverse Environmental Conditions
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Acinetobacter baumannii has emerged as one of the WHO most dangerous pathogens hit-list and considered a priority of the Public Health Services worldwide. It can cause a wide range of opportunistic infections, typically involving ventilatorassociated pneumonia, septicaemia and surgical wound infections mainly in immunocompromised patients [1]. The general morbidity and mortality rates of infections caused by Acinetobacter baumannii are similar to those of MRSA and that’s why it has been termed the gram-negative MRSA.
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