STREPTOBACILLUS
\stɹˈɛptəbˌasɪləs], \stɹˈɛptəbˌasɪləs], \s_t_ɹ_ˈɛ_p_t_ə_b_ˌa_s_ɪ_l_ə_s]\
Definitions of STREPTOBACILLUS
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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A genus of gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacteria that require serum, ascitic fluid, or blood for growth. Its organisms inhabit the throat and nasopharynx of wild and laboratory rats and cause one form of RAT-BITE FEVER in man.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A variety of Bacillus in which the rods are arranged in twisted chains. One species 0.9-1.8 mmm. long by 0.9-1.2 mmm. broad has been found in cases of typhus and produces an eruptive febrile disease in pigs. S. pseudotuberculosis rodentium, the Bacillus pseudotuberculosis.
By Alexander Duane
