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aer•o•bac•ter
(âr′ō bak′tər),USA pronunciation n.
- Microbiologyany of several short, rod-shaped, Gram-negative bacteria of the genus Aerobacter, free living in nature and also normally inhabiting the intestinal tracts of humans and other animals.
- Neo-Latin (1900); see aero-, -bacter
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