Bacterium
cardiobacterium
Subclass of:
Cardiobacteriaceae
Definitions related to cardiobacterium (genus):
  • (cardiobacterium) Any bacteria that is not assigned to the species level but can be assigned to the Cardiobacterium genus level.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
  • (cardiobacterium) A genus of facultatively anaerobic, Gram-negative, straight bacilli assigned to the phylum Proteobacteria and the family Cardiobacteriaceae.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • (cardiobacterium) A genus of gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic bacteria in the family CARDIOBACTERIACEAE. It is found in the nasal flora of humans and causes ENDOCARDITIS.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • Cardiobacterium hominis is a member of the HACEK group (Haemophilus paraphrophilus, Haemophilus parainfluenzae, Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans, Aggregatibacter aphrophilus, C hominis, Eikenella corrodens, and Kingella kingae), which are fastidious, gram-negative, aerobic bacilli that normally reside in the respiratory tract. They...
    Medscape
    WebMD, 2019
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