Phenotypic and Genotypic Characterization of Clinically Recovered Presumptive Acinetobacter baumannii Isolates which Failed to Grow at 44°C

Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie

Volumn 285, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 29-34

  Traub, Walter H ^a   Bauer, Dierk ^a   Leonhard, Birgit ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ACINETOBACTER; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHENOTYPE; RABBIT; TEMPERATURE;

ACINETOBACTER; ANIMALS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE; RABBITS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0030239423     PISSN: 09348840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0934-8840(96)80019-3     Document Type: Article

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