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Clinicians also worry about vancomycin-resistant enterococci VRE, encouraged by the use of the antibiotic virginiamycin in livestock, Clostridium difficile, a serious intestinal bug developing resistance, and resistant Acinetobacter baumannii which has so afflicted US troops in Iraq it has been dubbed "Iraqibacter."
Martha Rosenberg: Are You Eating Antibiotics Without Knowing It? Probably! Martha Rosenberg 2012
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Clinicians also worry about vancomycin-resistant enterococci VRE, encouraged by the use of the antibiotic virginiamycin in livestock, Clostridium difficile, a serious intestinal bug developing resistance, and resistant Acinetobacter baumannii which has so afflicted US troops in Iraq it has been dubbed "Iraqibacter."
Martha Rosenberg: Are You Eating Antibiotics Without Knowing It? Probably! Martha Rosenberg 2012
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"Iraqibacter" are under quarantine at a civilian hospital in Quebec City.
CTV News RSS Feed 2009
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U.S. soldiers have since dubbed the germ "Iraqibacter."
CTV News RSS Feed 2009
Prolagus commented on the word Iraqibacter
Nickname of Acinetobacter baumannii among US troops in Iraq.
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It would be cute if you could adopt this word. I have no list where it would fit. Also, my lists are immunodeficient.
December 4, 2010