Susceptibility Testing of Colistin for Acinetobacter baumannii: How Far Are We from the Truth?

ABSTRACT: Acinetobacter baumannii is involved in life-threatening nosocomial infections, mainly in the intensive care units (ICUs), and often colistin may represent the last therapeutic opportunity. The susceptibility to colistin of 51 epidemiologically typed A. baumannii strains isolated in 2017 from clinical samples of patients hospitalized in the ICU of a tertiary care academic hospital was investigated. All isolates were carbapenem-resistant due to the presence of the bla

SUBMITTER: Sacco F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7824894 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature