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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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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To the Editor: Acinetobacter species are ubiquitous in the
environment. , and his colleagues isolated the
bacterium, called Acinetobacter baumannii, from 148 wounded soldiers
returning from Iraq and Afghanistan between November 2002 and September
2003. Individually, those organisms that have a
natural resistance to certain beta lactams and beta-lactamase
inhibitors--for example, some Enterobacteriaceae, Pseudomonas species,
and Acinetobacter species--were not common in our study. |
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