Before he left, there had already been the first reports of patients returning from the battlefield with wound infections, pneumonia and other problems caused by a bacteria called Acinetobacter baumannii, which is rarely seen in the United States.

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S. Comfort in the Persian Gulf in 2003, Lieutenant Commander Kyle Petersen faced an unexpected enemy: a killer bug called Acinetobacter baumannii.

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To treat soldiers returning from Iraq with wound infections caused by Acinetobacter baumannii, doctors are resorting to using a drug called colistin.

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