Acinetobacter Baumannii

Ridiculous yes, and frustrating to the critical point when you can't get answers.
The mother of a young man who was in Kuwait contacted me. He had to have his appendix taken out and ended up in Lanstuhl for thirty days where they thought he was going to die. When he got back to the States he ended up with meningitis from it and is now brain damaged. They would not give her his medical records.
Stay on top of it. Call me if you have any questions you don't want to put here. My number is the one on the site.
We'll be thinking about you and hoping for a full recovery for your husband.
 

Sherri
Acinetobacter can colonize, which means it is present and maybe growing but not causing an infection. This was the case with my husbands acinetobacter. It is very difficult to tell the difference. That is at least some good news for your husband.
If I were you I would make sure he is not being treated with antibiotics for something else that acinetobacter is not senstive to. If your husband has the Acinetobacter Baumannii species we are concerned with on this site there is not much that it is sensitive to.
I have no words to express my outrage at what has happened to your husband. I have not talked to anyone who has had an experience in a civilian or a military hospital that hasn't had something go wrong. Once we left Walter Reed and went to the civilian hospital I slept (sort of) next to my husbands bed because we were both afraid of what else might happen to him.
Please email me junglem@yahoo.com if you'd like more specific help regarding acinetobacter.
We'll be thinking of you and your husband and hoping he's already coming around. Please let us know, I'll be worried about you both!
 

The Health minister in the UK has confirmed that a strain of Acinetobacter baumannii with multiple antibiotic resistance has been isolated from injured soldiers returning to the UK from Iraq. The multi-resistant strain of A. baumannii known as the 'T strain' has been reported to have caused an outbreak at one UK hospital infecting at least 93 people. In the US A. baumannii has been identified in more than 240 military personnel in the US since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and has been associated with five deaths.

Acinetobacter at the Microbiology Blog
 

Thank you for this information, my Mother in Law was fighting Lymphomia in Babtist Memorial Hospital in Arkansas, she developed open sores on her legs. While in ICU she suddenly got worse, she was clear of the Cancer, but now had serious infections. The wound Doctor finally told the family that she had Acinetobator Baumannii and it came from Iraq. There were 8 infections in the Hospital and 4 deaths. There was a patient accross the hall with a military haircut and a missing leg. My Mother in Law died from the infection and on her death certificate, they entered "Persistant Staff Infection". We know what she died of and are now seeking more information on this seemingly secret bacteria. The word needs to get out, no one seems to have knowledge of this outside the Military.
 

how is the CDC adressing this issue. At the University where I live they shut down all of their ICU's for cleaning because of this bacteria.