Acinetobacter calcoaceticus

Acinetobacter calcoaceticus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Gammaproteobacteria
Order: Pseudomonadales
Family: Moraxellaceae
Genus: Acinetobacter
Species:
A. calcoaceticus
Binomial name
Acinetobacter calcoaceticus
"Micrococcus calco-aceticus" Beijerinck 1911
Synonyms

Neisseria winogradskyi
Moraxella calcoacetica
Micrococcus calcoaceticus
Herellea vaginicola

Acinetobacter calcoaceticus is a bacterial species of the genus Acinetobacter.[1] It is a nonmotile, Gram-negative coccobacillus. It grows under aerobic conditions, is catalase positive and oxidase negative. A. calcoaceticus is a part of the A. calcoaceticus-A. baumannii complex together with Acinetobacter baumannii, Acinetobacter nosocomialis, Acinetobacter pitti and Acinetobacter seifertii.[2]

  1. ^ "Genus: Acinetobacter".
  2. ^ Nemec, Alexandr; Krizova, Lenka; Maixnerova, Martina; Sedo, Ondrej; Brisse, Sylvain; Higgins, Paul G. (2015). "Acinetobacter seifertii sp. nov., a member of the Acinetobacter calcoaceticus–Acinetobacter baumannii complex isolated from human clinical specimens". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 65 (Pt 3): 934–942. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.000043. PMID 25563912.