Bacterium
escherichia fergusonii
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A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram negative, rod shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Proteobacteria. This species is motile, indole positive, lysine decarboxylase, ornithine decarboxylase, and catalase positive, and negative for Vosges-Proskauer, citrate utilization, urea hydrolysis, phenylalanine deamination, arginine dihydrolase, growth in KCN and fermentation of lactose, sucrose, myo-inositol, D-sorbitol, raffinose and alpha-methyl-D-glucose. E. fergusonii can be isolated from the intestinal tract of warm blooded animals and from contaminated beef. In humans, this bacteria is most commonly responsible for wound infections, urinary tract infections, bacteremia, diarrhea, and pleural infections.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Escherichia fergusonii.CDISC TerminologyClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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