AB569, a non-toxic combination of acidified nitrite and EDTA, is effective at killing the notorious Iraq/Afghanistan combat wound pathogens, multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii and Acinetobacter spp.

• Amy L. Bogue,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base), Dayton, OH, United States of America

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• Warunya Panmanee,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

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• Cameron T. McDaniel,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

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• Joel E. Mortensen,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Diagnostic Infectious Disease Testing Laboratory and Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

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• Edwin Kamau,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC), Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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• Luis A. Actis,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Miami University, Oxford, OH, United States of America

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• Jay A. Johannigman,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research, San Antonio, TX, United States of America

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• Michael J. Schurr,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine, Denver, CO, United States of America

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• Latha Satish,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America, College of Pharmacy, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

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• Nalinikanth Kotagiri,

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Department, Shriners Hospitals for Children- Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0066-4563

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• Daniel J. Hassett

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Daniel.Hassett@UC.Edu

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2300-4955

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