Bacterium
vibrio parahaemolyticus
Subclass of:
Vibrio
Definitions related to vibrio parahaemolyticus:
  • A species of bacteria found in the marine environment, sea foods, and the feces of patients with acute enteritis.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram negative, curved rod shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Proteobacteria. This species is motile, oxidase and lysine decarboxylase positive, hemolytic, halophilic and can use a wide variety of sugars as carbon sources. V. parahaemolyticus is a marine organism and a pathogen that causes gastroenteritis and wound infections.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Vibrio parahaemolyticus.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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