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Acinetobacter: Portrait of a Genus

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Book cover The Biology of Acinetobacter

Part of the book series: Federation of European Microbiological Societies Symposium Series ((FEMS,volume 57))

Abstract

The genus Acinetobacter originally proposed by Brisou and Prévot (1954) comprised a heterogenous collection of non-motile Gram-negative organisms which could be distinguished from other similar organisms by their lack of pigmentation (Ingram and Shewan, 1960). Now classified in the family Neisseriaceae, the present generic description (Juni, 1984) allows unambiguous identification of strains to the genus level. A difficulty arises in that many current members of the genus have been classified previously under a variety of different names (reviewed by Henriksen, 1973), and much of the early literature concerning this group of organisms is, therefore, difficult to interpret owing to confusion over nomenclature and the lack of a widely-accepted classification scheme. Delineation of species within the genus is still the subject of much research. The latest developments are described in detail elsewhere (Grimont and Bouvet, this volume), but the reader should bear in mind that many of the Acinetobacter strains described in this volume still occupy a somewhat nebulous taxonomic position within the genus.

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