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The Genus Acinetobacter

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Introduction

Gram-negative nonfermentative bacteria belonging to the genus Acinetobacter have been classified previously under at least 15 different names (Bergogne-Bérézin and Towner, 1996), and it is only relatively recently that rational taxonomic proposals have emerged. Delineation of species is still the subject of ongoing research, and a rapid and reliable method of assigning new isolates to individual species is particularly needed.

Notwithstanding the continuing taxonomic confusion, it is clear that acinetobacters are common, free-living saprophytes found in soil, water, sewage and foods. They are also ubiquitous organisms in the clinical environment, where they can be isolated as commensals from the skin of hospital staff and patients. They have increasingly been recognized as important nosocomial pathogens involved in outbreaks of hospital infection, particularly in high-dependency or intensive care units, where they rapidly develop resistance to even the most potent...

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Towner, K. (2006). The Genus Acinetobacter. In: Dworkin, M., Falkow, S., Rosenberg, E., Schleifer, KH., Stackebrandt, E. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30746-X_25

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