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<bacteria>
<microbiology> 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.
(12 Dec 1998)
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