"Vitreoscilla" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A genus of gram-negative, aerobic or microaerophilic, colorless filaments. It is nonfruiting, motile by gliding, and found in freshwater sediments and cow dung. One species (V. stercoraria) is considered morphologically to be a streptobacillus. That species is strictly aerobic and produces a homodimeric bacterial hemoglobin, especially under oxygen-limited growth conditions. (From Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 9th ed)
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D020589
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B03.440.400.840 B03.660.075.525.900
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