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Case Reports
. 2015 Jan;53(1):349-51.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.02625-14. Epub 2014 Nov 12.

A taxonomically unique Acinetobacter strain with proteolytic and hemolytic activities recovered from a patient with a soft tissue injury

Marisa Almuzara  1 , German Matías Traglia  2 , Lenka Krizova  3 , Claudia Barberis  4 , Sabrina Montaña  2 , Romina Bakai  5 , Alicia Tuduri  5 , Carlos Vay  4 , Alexandr Nemec  6 , María Soledad Ramírez  7
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A taxonomically unique Acinetobacter strain with proteolytic and hemolytic activities recovered from a patient with a soft tissue injury

Marisa Almuzara et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2015 Jan.

Abstract

A taxonomically unique bacterial strain, Acinetobacter sp. A47, has been recovered from several soft tissue samples from a patient undergoing reconstructive surgery owing to a traumatic amputation. The results of 16S rRNA, rpoB, and gyrB gene comparative sequence analyses showed that A47 does not belong to any of the hitherto-known taxa and may represent an as-yet-unknown Acinetobacter species. The recognition of this novel organism contributes to our knowledge of the taxonomic complexity underlying infections caused by Acinetobacter.

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