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Volume 2, Issue 1, Page 1 (January 2006)

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Acinetobacter Has Disastrous Potential

KERRI WACHTER (Senior Writer)

WASHINGTON — The United States may be poised on the brink of the next drug-resistant infection epidemic, with outbreaks of Acinetobacter baumannii already appearing in hospitals here, according to experts speaking at the annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. Ventilator-dependent patients are among the most vulnerable. Central nervous system infections also are common.

PII: S1553-3212(06)71392-9

doi:10.1016/S1553-3212(06)71392-9

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