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Case Reports
. 2003 Mar;41(3):1337-8.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.41.3.1337-1338.2003.

Bacteremia caused by Acinetobacter ursingii

Julien Loubinoux  1 , Liliana Mihaila-Amrouche, Anne Le Fleche, Etienne Pigne, Gerard Huchon, Patrick A D Grimont, Anne Bouvet
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Bacteremia caused by Acinetobacter ursingii

Julien Loubinoux et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2003 Mar.

Abstract

Acinetobacter ursingii has not been reported in infectious processes apart from its recent description as a new species. A bacteremia caused by A. ursingii in a patient with a pulmonary adenocarcinoma confirms that this microorganism is an opportunistic human pathogen. The isolate was susceptible to imipenem, aminoglycosides, rifampin, and fluoroquinolones.

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FIG. 1.
Phylogenetic tree of isolate 954 of A. ursingii and the type strains of related species based on comparative analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequences. Sequence alignment was by the CLUSTAL method. The dendrogram was generated by using the neighbor-joining algorithm and choosing Pseudomonas aeruginosa as the outgroup. %Knuc, percentage of nucleotide substitution.
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