Insights in Medical Microbiology and Diagnosis

Abstract

Research article by Claudia Rizzo, Nadia Marascio, Emilia Zicca, Grazia Pavia, Angela Quirino, Angelo Giuseppe Lamberti, Maria Carla Liberto and Alfredo Focà. The gram-negative bacterium Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii) is an increasingly significant cause of nosocomial infections. This study addresses the role of overexpression of the adeABC efflux pump as a cause of multidrug resistance (MDR), especially resistance to the antibiotic tigecycline, by A. baumannii isolated from such infections [5].