MEDICINE: BORIS: A. baumanni Highly Resistant β-Lactamase and Varying Susceptibility Patterns

Audio Journal of Medicine, September 21st, 2007 Reporting from: 47th Annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), Chicago, 2007 BORIS: A. baumanni Highly Resistant β-Lactamase and Varying Susceptibility Patterns JANE HATA, bioMéríeux Inc, Durham REFERENCE: Slide Session C2-1360/ICAAC Congress 2007 Chicago 16-20 September Reports from the BORIS study call for ongoing surveillance of multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter Baumanii. Investigators found varying susceptibility and resistance patterns across the United States that highlight the organisms ability to adapt. Nicola Solomon spoke with Jane Hata of bioMéríeux.