Acinetobacter: Portrait of a Genus

KJ Towner, E Bergogne-Bérézin… - The Biology of …, 1991 - Springer
The genus Acinetobacter originally proposed by Brisou and Prévot (1954) comprised a
heterogenous collection of non-motile Gram-negative organisms which could be …

The Genus Acinetobacter

KJ Towner - The Prokaryotes: A Handbook on the Biology of …, 1992 - Springer
Members of the genus Acinetobacter have previously been classified by various authors
under a variety of different names (reviewed by Henriksen, 1973), and, consequently, much …

A novel competence gene, comP, is essential for natural transformation of Acinetobacter sp. strain BD413

D Porstendörfer, U Drotschmann… - Applied and …, 1997 - Am Soc Microbiol
Acinetobacter sp. strain BD413 (= ATCC 33305), a nutritionally versatile bacterium, has an
extremely efficient natural transformation system. Here we describe the generation of eight …

Acinetobacter: environmental and biotechnological applications

D Abdel-El-Haleem - African journal of Biotechnology, 2003 - ajol.info
Among microbial communities involved in different ecosystems such as soil, freshwater,
wastewater and solid wastes, several strains belonging to the genus of Acinetobacter have …

[HTML][HTML] Comparative genomic analysis of Acinetobacter spp. plasmids originating from clinical settings and environmental habitats

IP Salto, G Torres Tejerizo, D Wibberg, A Pühler… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Bacteria belonging to the genus Acinetobacter have become of clinical importance over the
last decade due to the development of a multi-resistant phenotype and their ability to survive …

Genospecies diversity of Acinetobacter isolates obtained from a biological nutrient removal pilot plant of a modified UCT configuration

AM Beacham, RJ Seviour, KC Lindrea, I Livingston - Water Research, 1990 - Elsevier
Isolates of Acinetobacter obtained from all stages of a modified UCT configured pilot plant
over a 14 month period were characterized and classified into the genospecies of Bouvet …

Plasmid DNA fingerprinting of Acinetobacter species other than Acinetobacter baumannii

H Seifert, A Schulze, R Baginski… - Journal of clinical …, 1994 - Am Soc Microbiol
During the last years Acinetobacter species have emerged as clinically significant
pathogens. Most infections are nosocomially acquired and mainly due to Acinetobacter …

Acinetobacter harbinensis sp. nov., isolated from river water

W Li, D Zhang, X Huang, W Qin - International journal of …, 2014 - microbiologyresearch.org
A bacterial strain, HITLi 7T, with nitrifying ability was isolated from the surface water of the
Songhua River in China. Cells were Gram-stain-negative, strictly aerobic, oxidase-negative …

Identification of Acinetobacter Species and Genotyping of Acinetobacter baumannii by Multilocus PCR and Mass Spectrometry

JA Ecker, C Massire, TA Hall, R Ranken… - Journal of clinical …, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
Members of the genus Acinetobacter are ubiquitous in soil and water and are an important
cause of nosocomial infections. A rapid method is needed to genotype Acinetobacter …

Sequencing of the rpoB Gene and Flanking Spacers for Molecular Identification of Acinetobacter Species

B La Scola, VAKB Gundi, A Khamis… - Journal of clinical …, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
Acinetobacter species are defined on the basis of several phenotypic characters, results of
DNA-DNA homology, and more recently, similarities or dissimilarities in 16S rRNA gene …