Bacterium
plesiomonas
Subclass of:
Enterobacteriaceae
Definitions related to plesiomonas:
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A genus of facultatively anaerobic gram negative rod shaped bacterium in the phylum Proteobacteria and the family Enterobacteriaceae.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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A genus of gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacteria that occurs in fish and other aquatic animals and in a variety of mammals, including man. Its organisms probably do not belong to the normal intestinal flora of man and can cause diarrhea.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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Any bacteria that is not assigned to the species level but can be assigned to the Plesiomonas genus level.CDISC TerminologyClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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