The antibiotic sensitivity results of reference strains and the spot test of eight phages against the reference strains of A. baumannii used in this study.

*“−”: no effect; “+”: turbid zone; “+++”: clear zone.†CS: carbapenem sensitive A. baumannii; CRAB: carbapenem resistant A. baumannii (including imipenem and meropenem resistant); MDRAB: multi-drug resistant (resistance to 3 or more of the following classes of antipseudomonal cephalosporin, antipseudomonal carbapenem, ampicillin-sulbactam, fluoroquinolone, aminoglycoside); XDR-AB: extensively drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (resistant to all antibiotics except colistin or tigecycline).‡TVG: Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Medical Center; NTU: National Taiwan University Hospital, Medical Center; KM: Kaohsiung Medical University, Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital; TZ: Hualien Tzu Chi Medical Center.; TSG: Tri-Service General Hospital, Medical Center.