Isolation and Identification of Multi-Drug Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii from a tertiary health care centre of Bangladesh

Acinetobacter baumannii has emerged over the last decade as a significant opportunistic pathogen and primarily associated with hospital-acquired infections. Increasing multidrug resistance pattern of A. baumannii makes it among the most difficult antimicrobial-resistant Gram-negative bacilli to control and treat. The aim of this study was to isolate and identify A. baumannii from clinical samples and to determine their antimicrobial resistance pattern to commonly prescribed drugs to find out Multi-Drug Resistant A. baumannii (MDRAB). Nine different clinical samples were collected from patients admitted to Comilla Medical College Hospital (CoMCH). A. baumannii were isolated and identified based on their growth, physiological, and biochemical characteristics. Their antibiograms were studied through standard disk diffusion method, and antibiotic susceptibility patterns were interpreted. Meropenem, Cephalexin, Ampicillin,…