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Country-Level Variation in Acinetobacter baumannii Resistance across North America, Central America, and the Caribbean: A Phenotypic and Plasmid Genomic Analysis of ATLAS Surveillance Data, 2000–2021
2026-06-26
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Background Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the WHO Region of the Americas accounted for an estimated 569,000 associated and 141,000 attributable deaths in 2019. Acinetobacter baumannii , in particular its carbapenem-resistant form, is a WHO critical-priority pathogen that disproportionately affects critically ill patients and acquires resistance efficiently through mobile genetic elements. Country-level variati...
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- 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.26506.1
