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Bacteria > Gram-Negative Bacteria > Gram-Negative Facultatively Anaerobic Rods > Enterobacteriaceae > Escherichia
Bacteria > Proteobacteria > Gammaproteobacteria > Enterobacteriaceae > Escherichia

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Escherichia  

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  • infection: coord IM with ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS (IM)

Scope note

  • A genus of gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacteria whose organisms occur in the lower part of the intestine of warm-blooded animals. The species are either nonpathogenic or opportunistic pathogens.

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