Incidence of Acinetobacter Species Other than A. baumannii among Clinical Isolates of Acinetobacter: Evidence for Emerging Species

• Published in: Journal of Clinical Microbiology Vol. 48; no. 4; pp. 1445 - 1449
• Main Authors: Turton, Jane F, Shah, Jayesh, Ozongwu, Chika, Pike, Rachel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Society for Microbiology 01-04-2010; American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
• Subjects: Acinetobacter; Acinetobacter - classification; Acinetobacter - genetics; Acinetobacter - isolation & purification; Acinetobacter Infections - epidemiology; Acinetobacter Infections - microbiology; Bacteremia - epidemiology; Bacteremia - microbiology; Bacterial Proteins - genetics; Bacteriology; beta-Lactamases - genetics; Cluster Analysis; Communicable Diseases, Emerging - epidemiology; Communicable Diseases, Emerging - microbiology; DNA, Bacterial - chemistry; DNA, Bacterial - genetics; DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases - genetics; Humans; Incidence; Molecular Sequence Data; Sequence Analysis, DNA
• ISSN: 0095-1137; 1098-660X
• DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02467-09

Six hundred ninety nonduplicate isolates of Acinetobacter species were identified using a combination of detection of blaOXA₋₅₁₋like and rpoB sequence cluster analysis. Although most isolates were identified as A. baumannii (78%), significant numbers of other species, particularly A. lwoffii/genomic species 9 (8.8%), A. ursingii (4%), genomic species 3 (1.7%), and A. johnsonii (1.7%), were received, often associated with bacteremias.