Cross Index Acinetobacter
SuperSet Prokaryote, Eubacteria Gram-Negative Aerobic/ Microaerophilic Rods and Cocci
Compare Acetobacter, Acidiphilium, Acidomonas methanolica, Acidothermus cellulolyticus, Acidovorax, Acinetobacter, Afipia, Agrobacterium, Agromonas oligotrophica, Alcaligenes, Alteromonas, Aminobacter, Aquaspirillum, Azomonas, Azorhizobium caulinodans, Azotobacter, Bacteroides, Beijerinckia, Bordetella, Bradyrhizobium japonicum, Brucella, Chromohalobacter marismortui, Chryseomonas luteola, Comamonas, Cupriavidus necator, Deleya, Derxia gummosa, Ensifer adherans, Erythrobacter longus, Flavobacterium, Flavomonas oryzihabitans, Francisella, Frateuria aurantica, Gluconobacter, Halomonas, Hydrogenophaga, Janthinobacterium lividum, Kingella, Lampropedia hyalina, Legionella, Marinobacter hydrocarbonoclasticus, Marinomonas, Mesophilobacter marinus, Methylobacillus glycogenes, Methylobacterium, Methylococcus, Methylomonas, Methylophaga, Methylophilus, Methylovorus glucosotrophus, Moraxella, Morococcus cerebrosus, Neisseriaceae, Neisseria, Oceanospirillum, Ochrobactrum anthropi, Oligella, Paracoccus, Phenylobacterium immobile, Phyllobacterium, Pseudomonas, Psychrobacter immobilis, Rhizobacter daucus, Rhizobium, Rhizomonas suberifaciens, Rochalimaea, Roseobacter, Rugomonas rubra, Serpens, Sinorhizobium, Sphingobacterium, Taylorella equigenitalis, Thermoleophilum, Thermomicrobium, Thermus, Variovorax paradoxus, Volcaniella eurhalina, Weeksella, Wolinella, Xanthobacter, Xanthomonas, Xyella fastidiosa, Xylophilus ampelinus, Zoogloea ramigera
Contrast Archaea
Subset  

 

Morphology Acinetobacter
CELLULAR  
Staining . Gram-negative but occasionally difficult to destain.
Morphology Rods 0.9-1.6 um in diameter and 1.5-2.5 um in length, becoming spherical in the stationary phase of growth. They commonly occur in pairs and also in chains of variable length
Motility Swimming motility does not occur but the cells display "twitching motility", presumably because of the presence of polar fimbriae.
Specialized structures Do not form spores.
Division  
COLONIAL  
Solid surface  
Liquid  

 

Growth Parameters Acinetobacter
PHYSIOLOGICAL  
Tropism chemoorganotroph
Oxygen Aerobic, having a strictly respiratory type of metabolism with oxygen as the terminal electron acceptor.
pH  
Temperature All strains grow between 20 and 30`C, with most strains having temperature optima of 33-35`C
Requirements Grow well on all common complex media. Most strains grow in defined media containing a single carbon and energy source; they use ammonium or nitrate salts as the source of nitrogen and display no growth factor requirements. The pentoses D-ribose, D-xylose, and L-arabinose can also be utilized as carbon sources by some strains... D-glucose is the only hexose utilized by some strains
Products  
Enzymes Catalase-positive Oxidase- negative...
Unique features  
ENVIRONMENTAL  
Habitat Occur naturally in soil, water and sewage
Lifestyle  
Pathogenicity Can cause nosocomial infections in humans
Distribution  

 

Genome Acinetobacter
G+C Mol % 38-47
   

 

Reference Acinetobacter
First citation Brisou, J. and A. R. Prevot (1954) Etude de systematique bacterienne. X. Revisions des especes reunies dans le Achromobacter. Ann Inst. Pasteur (Paris) 86:722-728
The Prokaryotes p
Bergey's Systematatic p 303 E. Juni
Bergey's Determinative p 73
References