Bacterium
eubacterium rectale
Definitions related to eubacterium rectale:
  • A genus of aerobic, Gram-positive, rod shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Firmicutes. This species is motile, non-spore forming, esculin positive, forms butyrate, produces abundant amounts of hydrogen, and utilizes glucose, cellobiose, melezitose, fructose, sucrose, raffinose, melibiose, starch, and inulin, but not glycerol. E. ractale is one of the most abundant species in the human gastrointestinal tract where it ferments carbohydrates.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Eubacterium rectale.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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