This study aimed to enhance the removal of petroleum with potent biosurfactant producing bacterial strains (Bacillius subtilis CC9, Enterobacter asburiae WMB1, Klebsiella oxytoca Rizhao 536-1, and Acinetobacter pittii PgBE252) isolated from an oil field. The production was determined by different screening methods such as hemolytic activity, drop-collapse, spreading, BATH, emulsification index ...

Purpose: In recent years, multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii has appeared and caused outbreaks of hospital infections all over the world. Close monitoring this pathogen other A. baumanii complex species is considered critical importance to public health organizations. The reliable identification method able distinguish from genetically close needed, because these are unable be differen...

Servicio Antimicrobianos, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas (INEI), ANLIS ‘Dr Carlos G. Malbrán’, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina; Servicio Antimicrobianos, Laboratorio Central de Salud Pública, Asunción, Paraguay; Centro Materno Infantil-Hospital de Clı́nicas, Universidad Nacional de Asunción, San Lorenzo, Departamento Central, Paraguay; Antimicrobial Resistance and Infe...

Acinetobacter species are common inhabitants of freshwater and marine ecosystems with a capacity to induce disease in affected fish. To facilitate their rapid reliable identification, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS), was applied from The aims the study were, thus, identify profile tissues fish living vulnerable environment impacted by ...

Acinetobacter baumannii is well known to clinicians as a cause of healthcareassociated infections [1]. Although biochemically indistinguishable from A. baumannii, Acinetobacter pittii and Acinetobacter nosocomialis are more recently described species that may also cause healthcare-associated infection and form part of the A. baumannii “complex.” The typical antibiotic-resistance phenotype of A....

Abstract Microorganisms have been reported to induce settlement in various marine invertebrate larvae but their specificity of inductive capacities for the coral remains poorly understood. In this study, we isolated 56 microbial strains from crustose coralline alga (CCA) Hydrolithon reinboldii using five different media either with or without additional antibiotics and/or spiked CCA extract. We...

This study investigated the clinical and microbiological characteristics of patients with recurrent bacteremia caused by the Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-Acinetobacter baumannii (ACB) complex at a medical center. All ACB complex isolates associated with recurrent bacteremia were identified to the genomic species level using a 16S-23S rRNA gene intergenic spacer sequence-based method. Genotypes w...