Using plus sign within a column name?

Hello I'm trying to work with a database that has a table with a column name like so:
A_B+

The problem is that every time I try to perform a query with it in any php document it returns a mysql error. I understand the + sign is a reserved word/symbol in the grammar but somehow there's an auto generated form using the same column name and it is able to work with it normally. I do not have access to that code so I can't see how do they get away with it.

If you have any clue on how should I write this column name so that it's recognized by the engine without throwing an error please let me know!

thanks in advanced.

That didn't work ... Still receiving the same error, here's the exact query:

SELECT count(DISTINCT ID) AS Totals
FROM table1 a
WHERE a.x= 'Atlantic City' AND a.A_B+ = 'Yes' AND a.Date BETWEEN '2012-10-01' and '2012-11-08'

I tried:
SELECT count(DISTINCT ID) AS Totals
FROM table1 a
WHERE a.x= 'Atlantic City' AND `a.A_B+` = 'Yes' AND a.Date BETWEEN '2012-10-01' and '2012-11-08'

Which gives me an SQL error ( SQL error (1054): Unknown column `a.A_B+` in 'where clause')

I also tried:
SELECT count(DISTINCT ID) AS Totals
FROM table1 a
WHERE a.x= 'Atlantic City' AND a.`A_B+` = 'Yes' AND a.Date BETWEEN '2012-10-01' and '2012-11-08'

which returns 0 as result and 0 is not the correct count.

well, at least you solved your error, right? the backticks worked

as for why the query returned 0 rows, that's gotta be a data problem

dump a few rows for us and we'll prove it actually did work

No I'm using the same query for other columns and it works just fine, and also if I change the column name to another thing ( on my local machine , not on the live server ) it works fine as well.

so the column name affects the count? i don't think so, bro

like i said, dump a few rows for us