Multiple Antibiotic Resistance in an Acinetobacter baumannii Global Clone

在医院引起感染的抗生素耐药性细菌可以起源于任何地方，然后传播到世界各地。它们开始对一些抗生素产生耐药性，然后对用于治疗它们的新抗生素产生耐药性。该项目将调查目前对大多数抗生素具有耐药性的鲍曼不动杆菌是如何获得对抗生素的耐药性的，以及为什么旧的耐药基因没有丢失。这将有助于追踪这些细菌进入澳大利亚及其周围地区。

Antibiotic resistant bacteria that cause infections in hospitals can originate anywhere, then spread world wide. They start off resistant to a few antibiotics, then become resistant to new antibiotics that are introduced to treat them. This project will investigate how resistance to antibiotics was acquired by Acinetobacter baumannii which is now resistant to most antibiotics, and why the old resistance genes are not being lost. This will help track these bacteria moving into and around Australia.