[Taxonomy of the genus Acinetobacter].

In the last decade the taxonomy of the genus Acinetobacter showed important changes. Since 1986 several classification studies have been published dividing progressively the genus Acinetobacter, originally believed to include a single species, A. calcoaceticus, into 19 genomospecies. The following papers paid attention to practical possibilities of identification and to clinical importance of different species and genomospecies. In the last three years, interesting data on the distribution of different Acinetobacter species in the Czech Republic and on taxonomic position of the multiresistant strains and those isolated from nosocomial outbreaks have been gathered in our laboratory.