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Complexity of Complement Resistance Factors Expressed by Acinetobacter baumannii Needed for Survival in Human Serum
31 Aug 2017
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Abstract Acinetobacter baumannii is a bacterial pathogen with increasing impact in healthcare settings, due in part to this organism’s resistance to many antimicrobial agents, with pneumonia and bacteremia as the most common manifestations of disease. A significant proportion of clinically relevant A. baumannii strains are resistant to killing by normal human serum (NHS), an observation supported in this study by...
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