%0 Journal Article
%T Physician¡¯s dilemma in treating Acinetobacter baumanii: A combination of art and science
%A Sagar Khadanga
%A Karuna Tadepalli
%A Pravat Kumar Thatoi
%A Rina Mohanty
%A Namita Mohapatra
%J Asian Journal of Medical Sciences
%P 105-107
%D 2015
%I Asian Journal of Medical Sciences Pokhara
%R 10.3126/ajms.v6i2.10405
%X Acinetobacter are gram negative coccobacilli and ubiquitous in nature 1 . Quiet frequently they are recovered from inpatients who are hospitalized for prolonged illness and often multiple times.  Although originally considered to be a low grade opportunistic pathogen Acinetobacter species has emerged to be one of the common nosocomial pathogen. These isolates are often MDR 1 . It still remains a physician’s dilemma whether to treat or not such isolates, considering them pathological or commmensals.  In one of our case it was isolated as a commensal and the patient did not require any antibiotic. On the hand the second case succumbed just after we started the susceptible antibiotic.  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ajms.v6i2.10405 Asian Journal of Medical Sciences Vol.6(2) 2015 105-107
%K Acinetobacter baumanii
%K Commensal
%K MDR (multi drug resistant)
%K Nosocomial.
%U http://nepjol.info/index.php/AJMS/article/view/10405