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Acinetobacter

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Acinetobacter [‚as·ə‚nēd·ə′bak·tər]
(microbiology)
A genus of nonmotile, short, plump, almost spherical rods in the family Neisseriaceae; strictly aerobic; resistant to penicillin.
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The development of new media is a constant process, and the latest products will provide chromogenic media to facilitate the detection of multidrug resistant bacteria such as VRE, ESBL, KPC, and Acinetobacter baumanii.
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However, it is unlikely that new antimicrobial drugs will be available in the near future to treat patients infected with gram-negative pathogens such as Acinetobacter baumannii (1).
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But a different pathogen, Acinetobacter baumannii, is an expanding threat and controlling outbreaks of it are proving extremely difficult, said the study, published in the British medical journal The Lancet.
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