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Acinetobacter baumannii and Acinetobacter spp.

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Acinetobacter baumannii is a bacterial pathogen increasingly identified in the clinical microbiology laboratory as a cause of infection in humans. Upon microscopic examination, A. baumannii appears as a Gram-negative coccobacillus, and it produces clear colonies when grown on MacConkey agar, indicating its inability to ferment lactose. The taxonomy of Acinetobacter genus, part of the γ subclass of the Proteobacteria phylum, is complex and currently comprises 43 species (http://www.bacterio.net/acinetobacter.html), defined mostly by genomic DNA–DNA hybridization.

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Perez, F., Bonomo, R.A. (2017). Acinetobacter baumannii and Acinetobacter spp.. In: Mayers, D., Sobel, J., Ouellette, M., Kaye, K., Marchaim, D. (eds) Antimicrobial Drug Resistance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47266-9_10

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