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Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii - The Modern Menace: A Retrospective Study in a Tertiary Hospital in Mangalore.

K C AshuthoshAshwini HegdePooja RaoRadhakrishna Manipura
Published in: Infection and drug resistance (2020)
Multidrug resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii continues to be a menace. In this study, a large number of isolates exhibited resistance to carbapenems such as imipenem, meropenem, and ertapenem, thereby signifying the need for further research and the use of other antibiotics such as tigecycline, to which higher susceptibility was observed.
Keyphrases
  • acinetobacter baumannii
  • multidrug resistant
  • drug resistant
  • gram negative
  • pseudomonas aeruginosa
  • klebsiella pneumoniae