Acinetobacter dispersus LPB

Weerawongwiwat, Veeraya, Kim, Myung Kyum, Joh, Kiseong, Kim, Seung-Bum, Seong, Chi-Nam, Yi, Hana & Kim, Jung-Hoon Yoon and Wonyong, 2021, A report on 38 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea in the class Gammaproteobacteria, Journal of Species Research 10 (3), pp. 201-216 : 211

Description of Acinetobacter dispersus LPB 0278

The cells are gram-positive, non-flagellated, and rod-shaped. The colonies are cream-colored, circular, entire, and convex after incubation on MA plates at 25℃ for 3 days under aerobic conditions. It is positive for esculin hydrolysis (weak), gelatinase (weak), and utilization of capric acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid; but negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urease, β-galactosidase, utilization of glucose, arabinose, mannose, mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, maltose, potassium gluconate, and adipic acid, and cytochrome oxidase, per the analysis using the API 20NE kit. Strain LPB0278 (= NIBR BAC000503343) was isolated from soil in Anam-dong 5-ga, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea.