Identification, molecular epidemiology, and antibiotic resistance characterization of
Acinetobacter spp. clinical isolates Page 1 FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES …

Publisher Summary Gram-negative non-fermentative bacteria belonging to the genus
Acinetobacter have assumed increasing clinical significance. Community acquired infection …

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 …

Bacteria belonging to the genus Acinetobacter share the following characteristics that allow
for presumptive identification at the genus level: they are gramnegative, strictly aerobic …

The control of hospital-acquired infection caused by multiply resistant gram-negative bacilli
has proved to be a particular problem over the last 20 years in developed countries. An …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on current challenges in the clinical laboratory
setting for identification, susceptibility testing, and epidemiology of Acinetobacter spp. The …

In the past two decades acinetobacters have been isolated from hospital infections and
nosocomial outbreaks in Denmark to an increasing extent. The first three chapters of the …

Acinetobacter species isolates from a range of environments, including soil, were
investigated. We determined 16S rRNA and rpoB gene sequences for species identification …

A numerical approach was used for identification of 198 Acinetobacter strains assigned to
DNA groups according to the classification of Tjernberg and Ursing (I. Tjernberg and J …

The prevalence of the currently known Acinetobacter species and related trends of
antimicrobial resistance in a Dutch university hospital were studied. Between 1999 and …