Bacterium
plesiomonas
Subclass of:
Enterobacteriaceae
Definitions related to plesiomonas:
  • A genus of facultatively anaerobic gram negative rod shaped bacterium in the phylum Proteobacteria and the family Enterobacteriaceae.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • 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 Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • Any bacteria that is not assigned to the species level but can be assigned to the Plesiomonas genus level.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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