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Acinetobacter /Ac·i·net·o·bac·ter/ (as?i-ne?to-bak´ter) a genus of bacteria (family Neisseriaceae), consisting of aerobic, gram-negative, paired coccobacilli, it is widely distributed in nature and part of the normal mammalian flora, but can cause severe primary infections in compromised hosts. The type species, A. calcoaceticus, can cause fatal pneumonia. Acinetobacter gram-negative bacteria commonly found in the environment and often normal flora in animals and humans, but has been associated with nosocomial infections and with bronchopneumonia in mink. |
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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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