Talk:Acinetobacter

Literature
Check out this link and see if it should be added. http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article1962456.eceLan Di 23:54, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Reply
Check out this link and see if it should be added. In my oppinion not. If I have time, I will add links from the medical literature (reference articles and high quality reviews). I have dozen of articles on Acinetobacter. --Discoleo 10:26, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Diagnosing Acinetobacter Infections
"Gram staining ... variable, leading to delays in identification and ultimately of treatment..

Direct staining of clinical specimens has little value in infections with Acinetobacter (though NOT in general, it should be one of the first steps in any infectious disease). However, delays in initiating proper treatment are usually the fault of the doctors (both treating one and microbiologist). Acinetobacter grows very well, and there should already exist a provisional antibiogram after 48-72h. Even IF the exact species is NOT known, the microbiologist MUST aknowledge that he is dealing with a NONFERMENTER, have a provisional antibiogram and point out to the treating physician, that whatever the final identification will yield, the organism is likely to show multiple resistances, so the treating physician should broaden the spectrum and timely switch to/add new antibiotics IF the condition deteriorates. --Discoleo 10:26, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Possible reference
Would this be a good reference to add? http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/ar_acinetobacter.html eveningscribe 02:36, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

That is a very good reference. Actually, every article from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is accurate, professionally written and easy to understand. In this latter respect, it is even easier to understand than the overly academic articles I have cited and therefore, I believe, it is even better suited for Wikipedia users.

-- Discoleo 18:30, 2 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Sorry it has taken so long for me to get back to you. Do I want to add the link to "references" or to "external Links"?  eveningscribe 09:06, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Simple Wiki Article
Please can somebody make an article for this on the Simple English Wikipedia. Thanks.

References that were masquerading as text
''The following were in the body of the text, but are actually references. They make it too long and there is nothing on significance of the citations. Moved to talk so can be used as references if needed.'' RJFJR (talk) 22:55, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Risk factors








Resistance
General, ICU


 * Global / Large Area


 * Limited Region / One Hospital

Acinetobacter


 * MDR


 * Carbapenem Resistance
 * Erratum in: Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2004 Mar;48(3):1070.
 * Erratum in: Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2004 Mar;48(3):1070.
 * Erratum in: Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2004 Mar;48(3):1070.
 * Erratum in: Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2004 Mar;48(3):1070.
 * Erratum in: Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2004 Mar;48(3):1070.


 * Cephalosporin Resistance

pronunciation
Whoever wrote "asz−in−ée−toe–back−ter," I'm glad you have your own private language where "sz" and "ée" are common phonemes, but for those of us who speak English, we have no idea how this gobbledygook is supposed to help. -50.140.186.66 (talk) 13:58, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

I've never heard anyone pronounce it with a hard C so I changed it from "ack-in-NEET..." to the American "a-sin-EE-toe..." (example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j_pqe2sFRo) though I pronounce it "a-sin-eh-toe...". Jaytee00 (talk) 15:32, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Use of Acinetobacter in wastewater treatment?
I have come to this page in search of further information re: acinetobacter in biological removal of phosphorous from wastewater. I am not qualified to write on the subject but would be very happy if there was a section devoted to this use as opposed to all the medical concern. Part of this section would also address the resulting sludge as it is tracked through composting or other soil amendment production and usage.Ronstrauch61 (talk) 15:52, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Material from Clinical Sig Section
Hey everyone! There was a Pathology section and a Clinical Significance section which had a lot of repeated material between the two. I went through and merged the two sections. There were a few bits that I couldn't really fit in anywhere, so I'm leaving them here so that if someone wants to add them back they can easily find them..
 * Since the start of the Iraq War, more than 700 U.S. soldiers have been infected with A. baumannii. Four civilians undergoing treatment for serious illnesses at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., contracted A. baumannii infections and died. At Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, a U.S. military hospital in Germany, another civilian under treatment, a 63-year-old German woman contracted the same strain of A. baumannii infecting troops in the facility and also died. These infections appear to have been hospital-acquired. Based on genotyping of A. baumannii cultured from patients prior to the start of the Iraq War, the soldiers likely contracted the infections while hospitalized for treatment in Europe.


 * This seemed overly specific for the section on Acinetobacter Clinical Significance. If someone has a page on A. baumannii outbreaks or something, this would be great material for that!


 * The ability of the pathogen to cause infection is determined by the production of virulence factors. These factors enable the pathogen to reach and colonize the site of infection, obtain nutrients from the host, evade or fight the host immune response, cause damage to the host cells and spread throughout the host – as well as from one host to another. Virulence determinants have been described as multifactorial and multidimensional involving efficient regulation of the various factors with respect to time as well as the site of secretion.


 * This is so broad that it pretty much applies to every pathogen. With that in mind, it was hard to find a place for it in clinical significance. So here it is.

That's pretty much it! Hopefully nothing in the merge was too controveresial! Happy editing! Ajpolino (talk) 04:35, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

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Infections
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