Bacterium
clostridium innocuum
Definitions related to clostridium innocuum:
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A species of anaerobic, Gram positive, rod shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Firmicutes. This species is nonsporulating, urease, catalase and indole negative, ferments mannose but not raffinose, does not reduce nitrate, is pyrrolidonyl positive and may appear gram variable due to staining difficulty. C. innocuum is part of the RIC group of clostridium and is an opportunistic pathogen.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Clostridium innocuum.CDISC TerminologyClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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