Bacterium
streptococcus agalactiae
Subclass of:
Streptococcus
Definitions related to streptococcus agalactiae:
  • A bacterium which causes mastitis in cattle and occasionally in man.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacteria in the phylum Firmicutes. This species is positive for beta hemolysis, CAMP test, Lancefield group B and arginine deamination and negative for esculin hydrolysis, pyrrolidonylarylamidase and catalase. It can ferment trehalose and ribose but not mannitol or sorbitol. S. agalactiae is a commensal organism of the human gastrointestinal and female genital tracts and is a pathogen is humans causing opportunistic infections and neonatal sepsis.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Streptococcus agalactiae.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
  • Bacterium which causes mastitis in cattle and occasionally in man; also known as Streptococcus Group B.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • (beta hemolytic streptococcus group b) A type of bacterium often found in the vagina. It can cause systemic infections in people with suppressed immune systems.
    NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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