Bacterium
shigella flexneri
Subclass of:
Shigella
Definitions related to shigella flexneri:
  • A bacterium which is one of the etiologic agents of bacillary dysentery (DYSENTERY, BACILLARY) and sometimes of infantile gastroenteritis.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram negative, rod shaped bacteria in the phylum Proteobacteria. This species is oxidase and citrate negative, indole positive and can produce acid and gas from glucose. S. flexneri is a pathogen that causes shigellosis in primates.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Shigella flexneri.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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