Bacterium
pasteurella aerogenes
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A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram-negative, rod shaped bacteria in the phylum Proteobacteria. This species is nonmotile, catalase, oxidase, and urease positive, indole, ornithine decarboxylase, gelatinase and Voges-Proskauer test negative, reduces nitrate, is not beta-hemolytic, does not produce hydrogen sulfide, grows on MacConkey's agar, and does not hydrolyze Tween 20 or 80. P. aerogenes is found in the intestinal tract of pigs and is pathogenic to humans.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Pasteurella aerogenes.CDISC TerminologyClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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