2017

Wen, Y., Ouyang, Z., Yu, Y., Zhou, X., Pei, Y., Devreese, B., Higgins, P.G., Zheng, F. (2017) Mechanistic insight into how multidrug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii response regulator AdeR recognizes an intercistronic region. Nucleic Acids Res. 45 : 9773-9787

Nowak, J., Zander, E., Stefanik, D., Higgins, P.G., Roca, I., Vila, J., McConnell, M.J., Cisneros, J.M., Seifert, H., MagicBullet Working Group WP4 (2017) High incidence of pandrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates collected from patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia in Greece, Italy and Spain as part of the MagicBullet clinical trial. J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 72 : 3277-3282

Zeidler, S., Hubloher, J., Schabacker, K., Lanosa, P., Santos, H., Müller, V. (2017) Trehalose, a temperature- and salt-induced solute with implications in pathophysiology of Acinetobacter baumannii. Environ. Microbiol. 19 : 5088-5099

Wilharm, G., Skiebe, E., Higgins, P.G., Poppel, M.T., Blaschke, U., Leser, S., Heider, C., Heindorf, M., Brauner, P., Jäckel, U., Böhland, K., Cuny, C., Lopinska, A., Kaminski, P., Kasprzak, M., Bochenski, M., Ciebiera, O., Tobólka, M., Zolnierowicz, K.M., Siekiera, J., Seifert, H., Gagné, S., Salcedo, S.P., Kaatz, M., Layer, F., Bender, J.K., Fuchs, S., Semmler, T., Pfeifer Y., Jerzak, L. (2017) Relatedness of wildlife and livestock avian isolates of the nosocomial pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii to lineages spread in hospitals worldwide. Environ. Microbiol. 19: 4349-4364

Nicholas, T., Wolff, H., Djahanschiri, B., Grundmann, F., Kronenwerth, M., Shi, Y., Simonyi, S., Grün, P., Shapiro-Ilan, D., Pidot, S., Stinear, T., Ebersberger, I., Helge Bode, H. (2017) Natural product diversity associated with the nematode symbionts Photorhabdus and Xenorhabdus. Nature Microbiology, doi: 10.1038/s41564-017-0039-9.

Higgins, P.G., Prior, P., Harmsen, D., Seifert, H. (2017) Development and evaluation of a core genome multilocus typing scheme for whole-genome sequence-based typing of Acinetobacter baumannii. PLoS One 12 : e0179228

Evans, S.R., Hujer, A.M., Jiang, H., Hill, C.B., Hujer, K.M., Mediavilla, J.R., Manca, C., Tran, T.T., Domitrovic, T.N., Higgins, P.G., Seifert, H., Kreiswirth, B.N., Patel, R., Jacobs, M.R., Chen, L., Sampath, R., Hall, T., Marzan, C., Fowler, V.G. Jr., Chambers, H.F., Bonomo, R.A.; Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group (ARLG) (2017) Informing antibiotic treatment decisions: evaluating rapid molecular diagnostics (RMDs) to identify susceptibility and resistance to carbapenems against Acinetobacter spp. PRIMERS III. J. Clin. Microbiol. 55: 134-144

Lopalco, P., Stahl, J., Annese, C., Averhoff, B., Corcelli, A. (2017) Identification of unique cardiolipin and monolysocardiolipin species in Acinetobacter baumannii. Scientific Reports 7, doi:10.1038/s41598-017-03214-w

Blaschke, U., Wilharm, G. (2017) Complete genome sequence of Acinetobacter sp. strain NCu2D-2 isolated from a mouse. Genome Announc. 5 : e01415-16

Scheich, S., Lindner, S., König, R., Reinheimer, C., Wichelhaus, T.A:, Hogardt, M., Kempf, V.A.J., Kessel, J., Martin, H., Wilke, A., Serve, H., Bug, G., Steffen, B. (2017) Clinical impact of colonization with multidrug-resistant organisms on outcome after allogeneic stem cell transplantation in patients with acute myeloid leukemia. Cancer, in press.

Mücke, M.M., Rumyantseva, T., Mücke, V.T., Sosnowsky, K., Kempf, V.A.J., Welsch, C., Zeuzem, C., Lange, C.M. (2017) Bacterial infection-triggered acute-on-chronic liver failure is associated with increased mortality. Liver Int., in press.

Mücke, M.M., Kessel, J., Mücke, V.T., Sosnowsky, K., Hogardt, M., Stephan, C., Zeuzem, S., Kempf, V.A.J., Lange, C.M. (2017) The role of Enterococcus spp. and multidrug-resistant bacteria causing pyogenic liver abscesses. BMC Infect. Dis., in press.

Ferstl, P., Filmann, N., Brandt, C., Zeuzem, S., Hogardt, M., Kempf, V.A.J., Waidmann, O., Reinheimer, C. (2017) The impact of carbapenem resistance on clinical deteriorationand mortality in patients with liver disease. Liver Int., in press.

Reinheimer, C., Keppler, O.T., Stephan, C., Wichelhaus, Friedrichs, I., Kempf, V.A.J. (2017) Elevated prevalence of multidrug-resistant gram-negative organisms in HIV positive men. BMC Infect. Dis., in press.

Reinheimer, C., Kempf, V.A.J. (corresponding author), Jozsa, K., Wichelhaus, T.A., Hogardt, M., Brandt, C. (2017) Prevalence of multidrug-resistant organisms in refugee patients, medical tourists and domestic patients admitted to a German University Hospital. BMC Infect. Dis. 17: 17

Klotz, P.*, Göttig, S.*, Leidner, U., Semmler, T., Scheufen, S., C. Ewers (2017) Carbapenem-resistance and pathogenicity of bovine Acinetobacter indicus-like isolates. PLoS ONE 12 : e0171986. *equal contribution to this paper.