3 cases of sepsis with drug resistant Acinetobacter anitratus]

Three cases of Acinetobacter anitratus sepsis were experienced.1) Case 1 is a so-called community acquired A. anitratus sepsis, which is considered the first report on this kind of disease in Japanese literature.2) Test for sensitivity of the isolated strains of A. anitratus to antibiotics revealed both sensitive and resistant to synthetic penicillin preparations, cephalosporin preparations and CP.3) MINO and DOXY have excellent MICS of 0.2 to 0.78μg/ml, which possibly make them drugs of first choice for A. anitratus sepsis.4) There 3 cases had a fever stage of average 22 days, and bacteremia long persisted in spite of an administration of antibiotics strongly antibacterial to A. anitratus.5) Hypertonic media are suggested to be useful for detecting of bacteremia during antibiotic administration for the patients.