Bacterium
sphingobacterium
Subclass of:
Gram-Negative Aerobic Rods and Cocci; Bacteroidetes
Definitions related to sphingobacterium:
  • A genus of aerobic, Gram negative, rod and cocci shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Bacteroidetes and the family Sphingobacteriaceae.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • A genus of gram-negative, chemoorganotrophic bacteria in the family Sphingobacteriaceae. They lack FLAGELLA but some species exhibit sliding motility.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • Any bacteria that is not assigned to the species level but can be assigned to the Sphingobacterium genus level.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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