RT Book, Section
A1 Rosa, Rossana
A1 Munoz-Price, L. Silvia
A2 Jameson, J. Larry
A2 Fauci, Anthony S.
A2 Kasper, Dennis L.
A2 Hauser, Stephen L.
A2 Longo, Dan L.
A2 Loscalzo, Joseph
SR Print(0)
ID 1159154469
T1 Acinetobacter Infections
T2 Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 20e
YR 2018
FD 2018
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259644016
LK accesspharmacy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1159154469
RD 2024/04/20
AB Acinetobacter  species  were  first  described  in  1911  and  named  Micrococcus  calcoaceticus.  Thereafter,  the  genus  was  renamed  multiple  times;  since  1950,  it  has  been  known  as  Acinetobacter.  Acinetobacter  species  are  gram-negative,  oxidase-negative,  nonmotile,  nonfermenting  coccobacilli  that  are  easily  recovered  on  standard  culture  media.  Differentiation  among  Acinetobacter  species  on  the  basis  of  phenotypic  characteristics  alone  is  very  difficult.  Molecular-based  methods  such  as  matrix-assisted  laser  desorption–ionization–time-of-flight  mass  spectrometry  (MALDI-TOF-MS)  and  quantitative  real-time  polymerase  chain  reaction  (PCR)  are  usually  necessary  to  identify  Acinetobacter  baumannii,  the  most  clinically  relevant  species  of  the  genus.