strep·to·ba·cil·lus
n 1 cap : a genus of facultatively anaerobic gram-negative rod bacteria of uncertain family affiliation that includes one (S. moniliformis) that is the causative agent of one form of rat-bite fever 2 pl -li : any of various nonmotile gram-negative bacilli in which the individual cells are joined in a chain : esp : one of the genus Streptobacillus .
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