Using imipenem, one of three intravenous antibiotics effective against Acinetobacter, doctors are treating Locker's infection.
Scott's study had limitations, but there is a long history of Acinetobacter infections in the Middle East.
There, doctors found that what was left of his arm after the amputation had been infected with Acinetobacter.
The Acinetobacter is a sturdier bug, however, and starts to move in where other bacteria have been killed off.
But Murray didn't find Acinetobacter when he took cultures of his patients' wounds.
About 10% were infected and another 20% were found to have Acinetobacter bacteria on their skin but were not infected.
S. Comfort in the Persian Gulf in 2003, Lieutenant Commander Kyle Petersen faced an unexpected enemy: a killer bug called Acinetobacter baumannii.
To treat soldiers returning from Iraq with wound infections caused by Acinetobacter baumannii, doctors are resorting to using a drug called colistin.
Petersen hypothesizes that the Acinetobacter comes from dirt deeply ingrained in wounds.
Postmortem tests revealed the culprit, a highly resistant acinetobacter never before seen.
Acinetobacter was the second most prevalent infection for soldiers in Vietnam, but the military did not expect to see it as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Acinetobacter was also the second most common pathogen in Vietnam.
Merlin Clark, a civilian contractor who was in Iraq doing humanitarian de-mining, was also infected with Acinetobacter and treated at Walter Reed, according to his wife, Marcie Hascall Clark.
At NNMC, an added step has been taken by making sure infected and contaminated patients are kept in clusters of rooms separate from those who don't test positive for Acinetobacter.
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.
Kyle Petersen, an infectious disease specialist at National Naval Medical Center, notes that aside from Vietnam, the other cases where Acinetobacter infection turned up include after the bombings in Bali and the earthquakes in Turkey.
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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