Community-Acquired Acinetobacter Pneumonia in Adults in Papua New Guinea

Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia due to Acinetobacter baumannii

“…Although A baumannii is not a well-recognized pathogen causing CAP, its importance increases in warm and humid countries, as shown by its identification in 10% of all community-acquired bacteremic pneumonia and 21% of Gram-negative pneumonia in northern Australia, 6 and by the preponderance of case reports of A baumannii CAP from countries in tropical or subtropical regions (Australia, 6 Kuwait, 7 Turkey, 10 Taiwan, 11 Thailand, 19 and Papua New Guinea 20 ). It is also more prevalent in warm and humid months of the year, inasmuch as 11 of 13 patients in our study acquired the infection between April and October.…”

Community-acquiredAcinetobacter baumannii: clinical characteristics, epidemiology and pathogenesis

“…Because of the apparent differences in disease presentation, other Acinetobacter species will not be discussed further in this review. In several older studies, A. calcoaceticus was listed as the infective organism [15][16][17] but we presume this is because of the authors not specifying the subspecies (A. calcoaceticus var anitratus or A. calcoaceticus var lwoffii). These studies will be included in our review of CA-Ab as it is likely that the subspecies was A. calcoaceticus var anitratus.…”

Chronic community-acquired Acinetobacter pneumonia that responded slowly to rifampicin in the anti-tuberculous regime

“…It is more prevalent in warm and humid countries. 2,3,7,8 Even in temperate regions, CAP due to A. baumannii has been reported between April and October, reflecting the preference for warm season. 4,5 CAAP is more prevalent in alcoholics and in patients with underlying illnesses like COPD and diabetes.…”

“…4,5,7,8,12 Four of these five patients had acute fulminant CAAP. Our patient, too, developed a large cavity in which an aspergilloma had formed.…”