Bacterium
yersinia pseudotuberculosis
Subclass of:
Yersinia
Definitions related to yersinia pseudotuberculosis:
  • A human and animal pathogen causing mesenteric lymphadenitis, diarrhea, and bacteremia.
    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 motile, urease positive and negative for ornithine decarboxylase, oxidase, indole, and pyrazinamidase. It is able to ferment rhamnose, and melibiose but not cellobiose, sorbitol, sorbose, sucrose, fucose, or raffinose. Y. pseudotuberculosis is found in many animal hosts and is a pathogen that can cause gastroenteritis in humans and many types of zoonotic infections.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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