Importância de acinetobacter baumannii em unidades de terapia intensiva: revisão dos principais sítios de infecção, susceptibilidade aos antimicrobianos e medidas de controle de infecções

Abstract

In this bibliographic review will be presented the importance of the microorganism in study A. baumannii in intensive care units addressing the microbiological and epidemiological aspects, its mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance, main sites of infection and measures to control infections caused by this pathogen. It is an opportunistic bacteria and emerging bringing serious therapeutic complications, difficult to control, its spread being appointed as responsible for the occurrence of various hospital outbreaks in intensive care units worldwide. Very worrying is the property of this species in expressing different mechanisms of resistance against almost all classes of antimicrobials available for treatment. The objective of this study is to demonstrate the importance of this microorganism as an agent of nosocomial infections mainly in intensive care units, noting finally that taking actions and simple measures such as washing hands, correct environmental hygiene, equipment disinfection and control of indiscriminate use of antimicrobials, could contribute greatly to reduce the incidence of nosocomial infections by this bacteria.