1. Cell surface hydrophobicity of 88 clinical strains of Acinetobacter baumannii
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Jeddi M, P.J.M Bouvet, Freney J, and Boujaafar N
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Cross Infection ,Cell Membrane Permeability ,Acinetobacter ,biology ,Cell ,General Medicine ,In Vitro Techniques ,biology.organism_classification ,Microbiology ,Bacterial Adhesion ,Acinetobacter baumannii ,High surface ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,medicine ,Humans ,Molecular Biology - 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.
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- 1990
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