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Acinetobacter in veterinary medicine, with an emphasis on Acinetobacter baumannii.

  • van der Kolk JH Swiss Institute of Equine Medicine (ISME), Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern and Agroscope, Länggassstrasse 124, 3012 Bern, Switzerland. Electronic address: johannes.vanderkolk@vetsuisse.unibe.ch.
  • Endimiani A Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Friedbühlstrasse 51, 3001 Bern, Switzerland.
  • Graubner C Swiss Institute of Equine Medicine (ISME), Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern and Agroscope, Länggassstrasse 124, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.
  • Gerber V Swiss Institute of Equine Medicine (ISME), Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern and Agroscope, Länggassstrasse 124, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.
  • Perreten V Institute of Veterinary Bacteriology, University of Bern, Länggassstrasse 122, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.
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  • 2018-08-26
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  • Journal of global antimicrobial resistance. - 2019
Acinetobacter baumannii
Antimicrobial resistance
Cat
Dog
Horse
Veterinary
Acinetobacter Infections
Acinetobacter baumannii
Animals
Cat Diseases
Cats
Cross Infection
Dog Diseases
Dogs
Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial
Horse Diseases
Horses
Hospitals, Animal
Humans
Microbial Sensitivity Tests
English Acinetobacter spp. are aerobic, rod-shaped, Gram-negative bacteria belonging to the Moraxellaceae family of the class Gammaproteobacteria and are considered ubiquitous organisms. Among them, Acinetobacter baumannii is the most clinically significant species with an extraordinary ability to accumulate antimicrobial resistance and to survive in the hospital environment. Recent reports indicate that A. baumannii has also evolved into a veterinary nosocomial pathogen. Although Acinetobacter spp. can be identified to species level using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF/MS) coupled with an updated database, molecular techniques are still necessary for genotyping and determination of clonal lineages. It appears that the majority of infections due to A. baumannii in veterinary medicine are nosocomial. Such isolates have been associated with several types of infection such as canine pyoderma, feline necrotizing fasciitis, urinary tract infection, equine thrombophlebitis and lower respiratory tract infection, foal sepsis, pneumonia in mink, and cutaneous lesions in hybrid falcons. Given the potential multidrug resistance of A. baumannii, treatment of diseased animals is often supportive and should preferably be based on in vitro antimicrobial susceptibility testing results. It should be noted that animal isolates show high genetic diversity and are in general distinct in their sequence types and resistance patterns from those found in humans. However, it cannot be excluded that animals may occasionally play a role as a reservoir of A. baumannii. Thus, it is of importance to implement infection control measures in veterinary hospitals to avoid nosocomial outbreaks with multidrug-resistant A. baumannii.
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