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Plesiomonas shigelloides
Definition 1
A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram-negative, rod shaped bacteria in the phylum Proteobacteria. This species is motile, oxidase, catalase, ornithine and lysine decarboxylase, and arginine dihydrolase positive, Voges-Proskauer test negative, reduces nitrate, but does not hydrolyze urea or liquefy gelatin. P. shigelloides is naturally found in fresh water and other marine environments as well as on their inhabitants and causes gastroenteritis in humans and other types of infections in immunocompromised individuals. (NCI Thesaurus)
Definition 2
Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Plesiomonas shigelloides. (NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
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