Abstract

In recent months 17 patients on the Burns Unit at St Lawrence Hospital have been infected with Acinetobacter anitratus. We present 4 patients who have been extremely ill and in whom Acinetobacter was considered to have played a prominent role. We stress the importance of opportunistic infection in burns patients and antibiotic resistance in this organism.

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