pasteurella
noun
pas·teu·rel·la
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Medical Definition of pasteurella
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capitalized
: a genus of gram-negative facultatively anaerobic nonmotile rod bacteria of the family Pasteurellaceae that stain differentially at the poles of the cell and include several important pathogens especially of domestic animals — see hemorrhagic septicemia, yersinia
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plural pasteurellas
or pasteurellae\ -ˌlī \
: any bacterium of the genus Pasteurella
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: any bacterium of the genus Pasteurella