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Porphyromonas
Definition 1
A genus of anaerobic, Gram negative, rod shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Bacteroidetes and the family Porphyromonadaceae. (NCI Thesaurus)
Definition 2
Any bacteria that is not assigned to the species level but can be assigned to the Porphyromonas genus level. (NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
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