... cement could lead to control of Acinetobacter baumannii, thus reducing amputations. Acinetobacter baumannii is deadly... and it ...ses search.php?q=baumannii&op=and Story here. ... exposed to open air. Although Acinetobacter baumannii rarely causes OM in the United States ... and not potentially fatal, A. baumannii OM had been largely ignored until recently ..., with the number of A. baumannii OM infections seen in field hospitals, ... soldiers suggesting that easily contracted A. baumannii may be arriving first at the fracture ... year that become infected with A. baumannii," said Edward Schwarz, Ph... http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/nf09/nfjan09/nf013009-7.htm
2. VA Watchdog dot Org - VA NEWS FLASH - 01-23-2007 #1nf012307-1.htm
... Press Releases Printer Friendly Page THE INVISIBLE ENEMY IN IRAQ: ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII -- As Iraq War veterans enter VA hospitals, older ... in Baghdad, an Army facility implicated in the spread of Acinetobacter baumannii. (photo: Peter Van AGTMAEL/POLARIS) Some ... have shown a positive test for a kind of bacteria called Acinetobacter baumannii. In the taxonomy of bad bugs, acinetobacter is classified ... more than 700 US soldiers have been infected or colonized with Acinetobacter baumannii. A significant number of additional cases have been found in ... the world. But the particular species causing the military infections, baumannii, is almost always found in just one environment - hospitals... http://www.vawatchdog.org/07/nf07/nfJAN07/nf012307-1.htm
...---------------------------- VA SAYS NO PRESUMPTIVES FOR HOST OF ILLNESSES AFFLICTING GULF WAR VETS -- Includes: Al Eskan disease, idiopathic acute eosinophilic pneumonia, wound and nosocomial infection including A. baumannii, mycoplasmas, or for any illness based on exposure to biologicwarfare agents. The following was posted in the Federal Register on Thursday, April 2, 2009. For more about Gulf War Illnesses, use the VA Watchdog search engine... click here... http://www.yourvabenefits.... http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/nf09/nfapr09/nf040409-1.htm
4. VA Watchdog dot Org - VA NEWS FLASH - 10-14-2007 #7 -- MOVING UP THE CHARTS: DRUG-RESISTANT BUG INVADES MILITARY AND CIVILIAN HOSPITALS -- "I don't think the statistics...do justice to the current problem. I hear people saying, 'It's all over my hospital.'"nf101407-7.htm
... over my hospital.'" Acinetobacter baumannii For more about Acinetobacter baumannii , use the VA Watchdog search engine ... America (IDSA) now ranks Acinetobacter baumannii on its list of "bad bugs ... The reported cases of nasty A. baumannii infections "may be just the tip ... Zapor reported a spike in A. baumannii infections among soldiers at Walter Reed who ... infected by a strain of A. baumannii that became "flesh eating." ...-diseases team traced an A. baumannii outbreak there to a military hospital in ... a health care worker contracting A. baumannii, a nurse at the Bethesda naval... http://www.vawatchdog.org/07/nf07/nfOCT07/nf101407-7.htm
5. VA Watchdog dot Org - VA NEWS FLASH - 05-17-2007 #8 -- DEADLY INFECTION NOT CARRIED ON GI'S SKIN, APPEARS TO BE CONTRACTED IN HOSPITALS -- Research done in Iraq indicates Acinetobacter infections are nosocomial.nf051707-8.htm
... found that drug-resistant strains of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-baumannii complex are not present on the skin of uninjured ..., as had been expected. A. calcoaceticus-baumannii complex is an important cause of trauma-associated ...One of the possibilities was that A. calcoaceticus-baumannii was on the soldiers skin before injury and simply ... Although the consequences of the outbreak A. calcoaceticus-baumannii infection in US military hospitals serving soldiers wounded in ... is unknown. To determine whether A. calcoaceticus-baumannii complex is carried on the skin of healthy US ... carriage is not the source of A. calcoaceticus-baumannii complex infection, then the other possibility is that... http://www.vawatchdog.org/07/nf07/nfMAY07/nf051707-8.htm
... says troops transmitted mysterious bacteria that has killed seven and affected military and civilians alike. For more about acinetobacter baumannii , use the VA Watchdog search engine...click here... http:// ... carrying a mysterious, deadly bacteria, according to a new magazine report. Doctors have linked the bacterium acinetobacter baumannii to at least seven deaths, as well as to loss of limbs and other severe ailments, according ... left/right arrows in screen to view more videos) Watch the latest videos on Youtube.com Acinetobacter baumannii has been found in military hospitals in Germany, the Washington, D.C., area and... http://www.vawatchdog.org/08/nf08/nfFEB08/nf020908-5.htm
7. VA Watchdog dot Org - VA NEWS FLASH - 10-01-2007 #2 -- MYSTERIOUS FOE PREYS ON WAR'S WOUNDED -- A strange, drug-resistant bacterium was infecting troops. Few had heard of it, and no one was sure of its origin.nf100107-2.htm
... Kyle Petersen, an infectious disease specialist with the U.S. Navy, examines a colony of Acinetobacter baumannii at the National Naval Medical Center. Petersen was one of the first in 2003 to sound the alarm ... blood tests confirmed that the medic and the two wounded Iraqis were all infected with an unusual bacterium, Acinetobacter baumannii. This particular strain had a deadly twist. It was resistant to a dozen antibiotics. The medic ... later, he met with Ghassan Matar, a visiting Lebanese scientist at the CDC, whose samples of Acinetobacter baumannii from patients in a Beirut hospital raised another red flag. The infections were a legacy of years of... http://www.vawatchdog.org/07/nf07/nfOCT07/nf100107-2.htm
... HOSPITAL OR ON THE BATTLEFIELD This is a serious medical problem for Gis wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. A number of vets have written to me about their acinetobacter baumannii infection. It's almost impossible to cure and can cause serious medical problems. And, it can be contracted in the hospital as well as in ... they may have gotten it from going through the hospital in Landstuhl," said Lt. Col. Henry Flaman, a Canadian military doctor in Edmonton. Acinetobacter baumannii has become one of the most common sources of infections among American troops wounded in Iraq. The bacteria are found in soil and water in Iraq. When... http://www.vawatchdog.org/old newsflashes FEB 06/newsflash02-23-2006-4.htm
... victims are relatively young troops who were injured by the land mines, mortars and suicide bombs that have permeated the Iraq conflict. No active-duty soldiers have died from the infections, but five extremely sick patients who were in the same hospitals as the injured soldiers have died after being infected with the bacteria, Acinetobacter baumannii. "This a very large outbreak," says Arjun Srinivasan, a lieutenant commander in the U.S. public health service and a medical epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control. Breaking This Threat Down To Numbers. Acinetobacter was the second most prevalent infection for soldiers in Vietnam, but the military did... http://www.vawatchdog.org/old newsflashes MAR 06/newsflash03-25-2006-4.htm
... in record time. All the way they taunted and encouraged each other with who was finished with his operations first and who went off the morphine drip first. "Everything was a competition," Salau laughed. After 13 operations -- some to position his femur for his new prosthesis but most to cut out Acinetobacter baumannii, an antibiotic-resistant bacteria common in Iraq -- Salau was released in two weeks. For the next six months he was an outpatient, getting used to having one leg made of carbon fiber, aluminum and titanium and to plugging it in every night to recharge the battery. He learned to walk,... http://www.vawatchdog.org/old newsflashes MAR 06/newsflash03-20-2006-5.htm
