Microbiology Eikenella, Pasteurella, and Chromobacterium species display both common and contrasting characteristics of laboratory properties, epidemiology, and clinical presentations. Eikenella and Pasteurella spp. are nonmotile, whereas C. violaceum is motile and less fastidious than the others. E. corrodens was the…
Acknowledgment The authors would like to thank Dr. Michael Brady for contributions to this chapter in past editions. Microbiology and Epidemiology Several genera of nonglucose-fermenting gram-negative bacilli are infrequent opportunistic human pathogens. Most are nonfastidious, aerobic, catalase-positive organisms; motility, oxidase…
Acknowledgments We acknowledge the substantial contributions of D.A. Powell, M.J. Marcon, and A. L. Leber to this chapter in previous editions. Microbiology Acinetobacter species are nonmotile, oxidase-negative, catalase-positive, strictly aerobic, gram-negative coccobacilli. Their inability to ferment glucose or to reduce…