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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