Acinetobacter baumannii infections in Amazon Region driven by extensively drug resistant international clones, 2016-2018.

Raquel Vosges CaldartÉrica Lourenço FonsecaFernanda FreitasLuiza RochaAna Carolina Vicente

Published in: Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (2019)

The A. baumannii epidemiology in Brazilian Amazon Region was unknown. It was demonstrated that A. baumannii XDR international clones were responsible for nosocomial infections in Boa Vista during 2016-2018, revealing that the epidemiological scenario of A. baumannii infections in Amazon Region resembles those from the cosmopolitan regions worldwide.

Keyphrases

drug resistant
acinetobacter baumannii
multidrug resistant
pseudomonas aeruginosa
klebsiella pneumoniae
escherichia coli
methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus