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Achromobacter

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Achromobacter [‚ā′krō·mə‚bak·tər]
(microbiology)
A genus of motile and nonmotile, gram-negative, rod-shaped bacteria in the family Achromobacteraceae.


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The reference strains included in the numerical taxonomy study were: Achromobacter denitrificans CECT (Coleccion Espanola de Cultivos Tipo, Valencia, Spain) [449.
Multidrug-resistant Achromobacter xylosoxidans was recovered from the sputum of a patient with cystic fibrosis.
The most common respiratory pathogens in CF are Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, but new pathogens are evolving, such as nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, Burkholderia cepacia, and Achromobacter xylosoxidans.
 
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