Acinetobacter baumannii complex, national laboratory-based surveillance in South Africa, 2017 to 2019

• Olga Perovic ,

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

  * E-mail: olgap@nicd.ac.za

  Affiliations Centre for Healthcare-Associated Infections, Antimicrobial Resistance and Mycoses, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa, Division of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Health Science, School of Pathology of the University of the Witwatersrand and the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5580-4629

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• Adrian Duse,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Health Science, School of Pathology of the University of the Witwatersrand and the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Vindana Chibabhai,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Health Science, School of Pathology of the University of the Witwatersrand and the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Johannesburg, South Africa, National Health Laboratory Service, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, Microbiology laboratory, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Marianne Black,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Health Science, School of Pathology of the University of the Witwatersrand and the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Johannesburg, South Africa, National Health Laboratory Service, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, Microbiology laboratory, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Mohamed Said,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, National Health Laboratory Services, Tshwane Academic Division, Pretoria, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2610-0440

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• Elizabeth Prentice,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology University of Cape Town and the National Health Laboratory Services, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Jeannette Wadula,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Health Science, School of Pathology of the University of the Witwatersrand and the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Johannesburg, South Africa, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Soweto, South Africa

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• Yesholata Mahabeer,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, National Health Laboratory Service, Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital, Durban, South Africa, School of Laboratory Medicine and Medical Sciences, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

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• K. Swe Swe Han,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, National Health Laboratory Service, Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital, Durban, South Africa, School of Laboratory Medicine and Medical Sciences, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

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• Ruth Mogokotleng,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Healthcare-Associated Infections, Antimicrobial Resistance and Mycoses, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Wilhelmina Strasheim,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Healthcare-Associated Infections, Antimicrobial Resistance and Mycoses, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Michelle Lowe,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Healthcare-Associated Infections, Antimicrobial Resistance and Mycoses, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Sabelle Jallow,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Healthcare-Associated Infections, Antimicrobial Resistance and Mycoses, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa, Division of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Health Science, School of Pathology of the University of the Witwatersrand and the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Husna Ismail,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Healthcare-Associated Infections, Antimicrobial Resistance and Mycoses, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• for GERMS-SA

  ¶Membership of the GERMS-SA is listed in the Acknowledgments.

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