Bacterium
serratia ficaria
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A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram negative, rod shaped bacteria in the phylum Proteobacteria. This species is motile, peritrichous, decarboxylase positive, citrase negative and can support growth on and produce acid from adonitol, arabinose, arabitol, melibiose, a methylglucoside, rhamnose, sorbitol and xylose. S. ficaria is associated with figs and fig wasps, and is a cause of gallbladder empyemas and sepsis in areas that cultivate fig trees.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Serratia ficaria.CDISC TerminologyClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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