Bacterium
cedecea davisae
Definitions related to cedecea davisae:
  • A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram-negative, bacilli assigned to the phylum Proteobacteria. This species is motile using 5 to 9 flagella, non-spore forming, catalase positive, oxidase negative, lipase positive, indole negative, ornithine decarboxylase positive, ferments sucrose, reduces nitrate, does not produce hydrogen sulfide, and only weakly hydrolyzes esculin. C. davisae is pathogenic to immunocompromised patients causing super infections and nosocomially acquired bacteremia.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Cedecea davisae.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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