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