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Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of clinically recovered presumptive Acinetobacter baumannii isolates which failed to grow at 44 degrees C.
Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie : international journal of medical microbiology - 1 Sept 1996
Traub W H, Bauer D, Leonhard B
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Eleven clinical isolates of Acinetobacter, which exhibited an identical biochemical profile compatible with genospecies 3 and failed to grow at 44 degrees C, were not agglutinated by polyclonal rabbit immune sera against 26 serovars of genospecies 3. Rather, all 11 isolates reacted strongly with antiserum against serovar 18 of A. baumannii. Macrorestriction (SmaI) analysis of genomic DNA revealed that only one...
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