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enterobacterium

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en·ter·o·bac·ter·i·um (nt-r-bk-tîr-m)
n. pl. en·ter·o·bac·ter·i·a (--)
Any of various gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae that includes some pathogens of animals, such as the colon bacillus and salmonella.
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Likely alternatives for its acquisition are 1) intestinal selection or acquisition of a resistant enterobacterium and in vivo transference to a freshly acquired Shigella or 2) direct acquisition of the resistant strain from contaminated water (not sustained, as no other resistant Shigella was obtained from the same community in the following year).
Third-Generation Cephalosporin Resistance in Shigella sonnei, ... by Gutkind, Gabriel / Emerging Infectious Diseases
 
 
 
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