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Yersinia enterocolitica
Definition 1
A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram negative, rod shaped bacteria in the phylum Proteobacteria. This species is motile, positive for urease, and ornithine decarboxylase, and negative for oxidase, and citrate. It is able to ferment cellobiose, sucrose, and sorbose but not raffinose, melibiose, or rhamnose. Y. enterocolitica is commensal and a pathogen that causes Yersiniosis, which infects children that have ingested contaminated meat or milk. (NCI Thesaurus)
Definition 2
Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Yersinia enterocolitica. (NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
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