Bacterium
battey bacillus
Definitions related to battey bacillus:
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(mycobacterium intracellulare) Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Mycobacterium intracellulare.CDISC TerminologyClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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(mycobacterium intracellulare) Species found in lung lesions and secretions of humans; may cause bone and tendon-sheath lesions in rabbits; some strains are pathogenic for mice; linked to opportunistic infections in humans; not easily distinguished from Mycobacterium avium and therefore is included in the Mycobacterium avium Complex.CRISP ThesaurusNational Institutes of Health, 2006
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