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Meningitis with Acinetobacter calcoaceticus in cerebrospinal fluid. A case report
Acta Cytologica
|May 1, 1983
Abstract:
A case of meningitis due to Acinetobacter calcoaceticus occurred after neurosurgery. The cerebrospinal fluid cytology showed intracellular diplococci that strongly resembled Neisseria meningitidis. However, subsequent bacteriologic studies revealed a bacterium identical to A. calcoaceticus. It is of practical importance for cytology laboratories to recognize this diplococcal form of organism.