Research Article: First report of Acinetobacter pittii acute community-acquired pneumonia in an immunocompetent patient in France following a heat wave
Introduction:
Acinetobacter spp. is a nonfermenting gram-negative coccobacillus. The genus is composed of over thirty species, some of which are genomically close and clustered into complexes, such as the Acinetobacter baumannii-calcoaceticus complex (ABC), which is composed of A. baumannii, A. nosocomialis, A. calcoaceticus and A. pittii [1]. In the clinical laboratory, ABC cultivation is easy since it grows overnight on standard media under ambient atmosphere. Even though its reservoir is environmental, this bacterium is…
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