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Corynebacterium minutissimum
Definition 1
A species of aerobic or facultatively anaerobic, Gram-positive, coryneform, pleomorphic bacilli assigned to the phylum Actinobacteria. This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming catalase and pyrazinamidase positive, indole and urease negative, non-lipophilic, does not reduce nitrate, ferments glucose, sucrose and maltose, hydrolyzes hippurate, but not casein or gelatin. C. minutissimum causes erythrasma and pruritic scaly rashes in diabetic patients. (NCI Thesaurus)
Definition 2
Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Corynebacterium minutissimum. (NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
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