Acinetobacter baumannii — Worldwide/Unknown
The outbreak of _A. baumannii_ [infection] at Shands mirrors a growing trend across the country and world of antibiotic-resistant bacteria causing deadly infections in hospitals’ sickest patients. Dr. Brad Spellberg, an infectious disease expert at UCLA [University of California, Los Angeles], estimates there are roughly 50 000 cases of this bacteria annually in the US, and 20 times that in the world. It is also common in returning troops from Afghanistan and Iraq, many of whom were
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