Susceptibility of acinetobacter strains isolated from deployed U.S. military personnel.

Antimicrob Agents Chemother

Infectious Disease Service (MCHE-MDI-7E), Brooke Army Medical Center, 3851 Roger Brooke Dr., Fort Sam Houston, TX 78234, USA.

Published: January 2007

The susceptibilities of 142 Acinetobacter baumannii-calcoaceticus complex isolates (95 from wounded U.S. soldiers deployed overseas) to 13 antimicrobial agents were determined by broth microdilution. The most active antimicrobial agents (> or =95% of isolates susceptible) were colistin, polymyxin B, and minocycline.

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