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Cell surface hydrophobicity of 88 clinical strains of Acinetobacter baumannii
N Boujaafar1, J Freney, P J Bouvet
1Laboratoire de Bactériologie, Hôpital Universitaire Farhat Hached, Sousse, Tunisia.
Research in Microbiology
|May 1, 1990
Abstract:
We studied the surface hydrophobicity of 88 Acinetobacter baumannii strains of clinical origin, using both salt aggregation and adherence to paraxylene tests. Strains were divided into 2 groups: the first included 65 strains isolated from various clinical samples (infected catheters, tracheal and bladder devices); the second included 23 strains isolated from skin obtained from healthy controls. High surface hydrophobicity was observed in 92% of the first group of strains and in only 5% of the second.