Credit: Getty Images. The investigational intravenous product is a combination of sulbactam, a β-lactam antibiotic, and durlobactam, a broad-spectrum β-lactamase inhibitor. The Food and Drug ...

November 4, 2009 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) — Multidrug-resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter baumannii (ACBA) is a persistent threat to hospitalized patients, whether the infection is acquired in the ...

Acinetobacter spp., notably Acinetobacter baumannii, are opportunistic pathogens of critical concern in hospital settings owing to intrinsic and acquired resistance to multiple antimicrobials.

New research has shown that a lack of dietary zinc can boost the chances of a lung infection caused by Acinetobacter baumannii bacteria; these pathogens are a major reason why people on ventilators ...

Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter, notably carbapenem-resistant A. baumannii, represents a mounting global health threat due to its capacity for rapid acquisition of resistance determinants and its ...

Credit: Getty Images. A PDUFA target date of May 29, 2023 has been set for the application. The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Antimicrobial Drugs Advisory Committee unanimously voted 12-0 in ...

Top-line results of a phase III trial testing sulbactam-durlobactam, a combination beta-lactam antibiotic and beta-lactamase inhibitor, in patients with carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii ...

Researchers discovered an unexpected link between zinc deficiency, the pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin-13 (IL-13), and Acinetobacter baumannii lung infection and demonstrated that blocking IL-13 ...

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

Researchers have found bacteria often associated with hospital infections in meat samples from markets in Peru. The Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) led the study, published in the ...

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 ...

Dietary zinc deficiency promotes lung infection by Acinetobacter baumannii bacteria—a leading cause of ventilator-associated pneumonia, according to a study published Nov. 15 in the journal Nature ...