[Etiological importance and identification of Acinetobacter in secondary and endogenous infections]

A total of 2 museum and 63 clinical Acinetobacter strains were studied. In these studies, carried out with the use of Oxi/Ferm Tube and API 20E, 56 cultures were classified as V. anitratus and 9, as V. lvoffii. To screen Acinetobacter in routine studies, simple tests were proposed: staining by Gram's method, the study of morphology and motility, the determination of the character of growth in Endo's medium and Russel's medium, the cytochromoxidase test. The occurrence of Acinetobacter in pathological material was found to vary between 0.43% and 3.5%, depending on the localization of the process.