Haemophilus: Avoid the misspelling Hemophilus. A genus of aerobic to facultatively anaerobic, nonmotile bacteria (family Brucellaceae) containing minute, gram-negative, rod-shaped cells that sometimes form threads and are pleomorphic. These organisms are strictly parasitic, growing best, or only, on media containing blood. They may or may not be pathogenic. They occur in various lesions and secretions, as well as in normal respiratory tracts, of vertebrates. The type species is Haemophilus influenzae. [G. haima, blood, + philos, fond]
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.
Haemophilus: genus of Pasteurellaceae that consists of several species occurring in animals and humans; organisms are described as gram negative, facultatively anaerobic, coccobacillus or rod shaped, and nonmotile.
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Haemophilus: A genus of PASTEURELLACEAE that consists of several species occurring in animals and humans. Its organisms are described as gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, coccobacillus or rod-shaped, and nonmotile.
Source: MeSH 2007
Source - MeSH 2007
Source - MeSH 2007
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Source - MeSH 2007
Source - CRISP
Source: CRISP
Source: CRISP
The following list attempts to classify Haemophilus into categories where each line is subset of the next.
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