[Occurrence of species of the Acinetobacter genus in material from patients and in the hospital environment].

370 clinical strains of genus Acinetobacter were classified in accordance of taxonomy of this group of bacteria introduced by Nouvet and Grimont (1986). Most frequent species isolated was A. baumanii (195), followed by A. lwoffii (71), A. junii (79) and A. haemolyticus (27). A. calcoaceticus and A. jonsonii were present only sporadically. A. baumanii was isolated from bronchial secretions (36.9%), sputum (20.5%), blood (8.7%), pus (8.2%) and ur@ine (8.2%). A. lwoffi was isolated above all from throat smears (26.8%), sputum (16.9%), bronchial secretions (16.9%) and urine (16.9%). A. junii was present in sputum (25.7%), blood (17.6%), throat smears (17.6%), bronchial secretions (13.5%) and urine (12.2%).