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Bacteria > Gram-Negative Bacteria > Gram-Negative Aerobic Bacteria > Gram-Negative Aerobic Rods and Cocci

Preferred term

Gram-Negative Aerobic Rods and Cocci  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Entry terms

  • Gram Negative Aerobic Rods and Cocci

Note

  • avoid: too general; prefer specific families & genera; infection: coord IM with GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS (IM); DF: GRAM NEG AEROBIC RODS

Scope note

  • A group of gram-negative bacteria consisting of rod- and coccus-shaped cells. They are both aerobic (able to grow under an air atmosphere) and microaerophilic (grow better in low concentrations of oxygen) under nitrogen-fixing conditions but, when supplied with a source of fixed nitrogen, they grow as aerobes.

History note

  • 98; use explode 1992-97

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URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D016946

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