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Streptococcus equinus
Definition 1
A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacteria in the phylum Firmicutes. This species is positive for Lancefield group D and esculin hydrolysis and negative for catalase, arginine deaminase, growth in 6.5% NaCl and pyrrolidonylarylamidase. It can ferment trehalose but not mannitol, melibiose or sorbitol. S. equinus is commensal in many animals and can be a human pathogen that causes a variety of opportunistic infections. (NCI Thesaurus)
Definition 2
Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Streptococcus equinus. (NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
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