Decades-old hospital samples have helped University of East Anglia (UEA) researchers uncover how a deadly ...

Scientists pieced together the genetic history of Acinetobacter baumannii — a notoriously stubborn hospital pathogen — using samples dating back 50 years to the 1970s. The post How this deadly ...

A research team has discovered a fundamental mechanism that helps the dreaded hospital pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii to survive. This mechanism explains why the pathogen is difficult to eradicate ...

Hospital-acquired infections are often hard to treat because the corresponding pathogens become increasingly resistant against antibiotics. The bacterium Acinetobacter baumannii is particularly feared ...

Each year, more than 670,000 people in Europe fall ill due to pathogenic bacteria that exhibit antibiotic resistance, and 33,000 die of the diseases they cause. Especially feared are pathogens that ...

Acinetobacter baumannii is a bacteria which can become a virulent killer in health-care settings among severely ill patients. The germ has rapidly developed drug resistance to even last-line ...

Acinetobacter bacteria are not airborne, but can be spread through direct contact with surfaces, objects, or the skin of people that are contaminated with A. baumannii. Bloodstream infections often ...

Recently, the teams led by Professor Xuechen Li from Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and Professor Sheng Chen from the Department of Infectious Diseases ...

Acinetobacter baumannii has emerged in the last decades as a major cause of healthcare-associated infections and nosocomial outbreaks. Multidrug-resistant (MDR) A. baumannii is a rapidly emerging ...

Acinetobacter baumannii are bacteria that cause infections in the blood, lungs, kidneys, brain, and other organs. These bacteria are nonmotile (don't move on their own), strictly aerobic (need oxygen ...