Bacterium
listeria Audio
lis·te·ri·a [ li-steer-ee-uh ]
Subclass of:
Gram-Positive Asporogenous Rods, Regular; Bacillales
Definitions related to listeria:
  • A genus of bacteria which may be found in the feces of animals and man, on vegetation, and in silage. Its species are parasitic on cold-blooded and warm-blooded animals, including man.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • A genus of gram-positive, rod-shaped bacteria in the phylum Firmicutes.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Any bacteria that is not assigned to the species level but can be assigned to the Listeria genus level.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
  • Genus of bacteria which may be found in the feces of animals and man, on vegetation, and in silage; parasitic on cold blooded and warm blooded animals, including man.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
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