Eugene Sheck, Andrey Romanov, Valeria Shapovalova, Elvira Shaidullina, Alexey Martinovich, Natali Ivanchik, Anna Mikotina, Elena Skleenova, Vladimir Oloviannikov, Ilya Azizov, Vera Vityazeva, Alyona Lavrinenko, Roman Kozlov, Mikhail Edelstein
BACKGROUND: Acinetobacter species other than A. baumannii are becoming increasingly more important as opportunistic pathogens for humans. The primary aim of this study was to assess the prevalence, species distribution, antimicrobial resistance patterns, and carbapenemase gene content of clinical Acinetobacter non- baumannii ( Anb ) isolates that were collected as part of a sentinel surveillance program of bacterial infections in hospitalized patients. The secondary aim was to evaluate the performance of MALDI-TOF MS systems for the species-level identification of Anb isolates...
August 9, 2023: Antibiotics