gartner's bacillus

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   a form of salmonella that causes gastroenteritis in humans

   SynonymsSalmonella enteritidis

   Broadersalmonella

Questions about gartner's bacillus

What does gartner's bacillus mean?

gartner's bacillus means "a form of salmonella that causes gastroenteritis in humans".

What is another word for gartner's bacillus?

Close synonyms include Salmonella enteritidis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gartner's bacillus a common word?

gartner's bacillus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.