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ACINETOBACTER GYLLENBERGII
| Class: | Gamma Proteobacteria |
| Genus: | Acinetobacter |
| Species: | Acinetobacter gyllenbergii |
| Description: | Gram-negative, strictly aerobic,oxidase-negative, catalase-positive, non-motile coccobacilli, capable of growth in mineral media with acetate as the sole carbon source and ammonia as the sole source of nitrogen but incapable of dissimilative denitrification. |
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| Source: | The strains studied were isolated exclusively from human clinical specimens (blood, urine, sputum, vaginal swab,throat swab).The type strain was isolated in 1978 from the urine of a patient in Leiden University Hospital, The Netherlands (Bouvet & Jeanjean, 1989). |
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| Genbank: | NZ_AYEQ00000000.1 [Genome] [Nucleotide] |
| Size (Mb): | 4.55 |
| GC %: | 40.8 |
| Genes: | 4,341 |
| CDS Number: | 4,055 |
| Reference: | NEMEC (A.), MUSÍLEK (M.), MAIXNEROVÁ (M.), DE BAERE (T.), VAN DER REIJDEN (T.J.K.), VANEECHOUTTE (M.) and DIJKSHOORN (L.): Acinetobacter beijerinckii sp. nov. and Acinetobacter gyllenbergii sp. nov., haemolytic organisms isolated from humans. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2009, 59, 118-124. |
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