PHENOTYPIC AND GENOTYPIC CHARACTERIZATION OF CLINICALLY RECOVERED PRESUMPTIVE ACINETOBACTER-BAUMANNII ISOLATES WHICH FAILED TO GROW AT 44-DEGREES-C

Authors
TRAUB WH BAUER D LEONHARD B
Citation
Wh. Traub et al., PHENOTYPIC AND GENOTYPIC CHARACTERIZATION OF CLINICALLY RECOVERED PRESUMPTIVE ACINETOBACTER-BAUMANNII ISOLATES WHICH FAILED TO GROW AT 44-DEGREES-C, Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie, 285(1), 1996, pp. 29-34
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology,Virology
Journal title
Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie → ACNP
ISSN journal
09348840
Volume
285
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
29 - 34
Database
ISI
SICI code
0934-8840(1996)285:1<29:PAGCOC>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
Eleven clinical isolates of Acinetobacter, which exhibited an identica l biochemical profile compatible with genospecies 3 and failed to grow at 44 degrees C, were not agglutinated by polyclonal rabbit immune se ra against 26 serovars of genospecies 3. Rather, all 11 isolates react ed strongly with antiserum against serovar 18 of A. baumannii. Macrore striction (SmaI) analysis of genomic DNA revealed that only one isolat e was genotypically different, whereas the remaining ones were either closely related or identical. However, the genomic DNA of the A. bauma nnii serovar 18 reference strain proved to be genotypically unrelated.