Bacterium
enteric bacteria
[ en-ter-ik bak-teer-ee-uh ]
Definitions related to enteric bacteria:
  • Any of the bacteria that normally or pathogenically reside in the intestinal tracts of animals.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Any rod-shaped bacterial organism that does not require oxygen to grow or respirate, cannot be assigned to a specific genus or species, has a cell wall that stains Gram-negative, and that occurs normally or pathogenically in the intestinal tracts of animals.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
  • See RTs for specific organisms.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
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