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... > Bacteria > Gram-Positive Bacteria > Gram-Positive Rods > Gram-Positive Asporogenous Rods > Gram-Positive Asporogenous Rods, Irregular > Actinobacteria > Bifidobacterium

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Bifidobacterium  

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  • infection: coordinate with BIFIDOBACTERIALES INFECTIONS

Scope note

  • A rod-shaped, gram-positive, non-acid-fast, non-spore-forming, non-motile bacterium that is a genus of the family Bifidobacteriaceae, order Bifidobacteriales, class ACTINOBACTERIA. It inhabits the intestines and feces of humans as well as the human vagina.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D001644

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