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shigella flexneri
shigella flexneri
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Shigella flexneri
Shigella flex·ner·i (flěks-něr'ī)
n.
Flexner's bacillus.
The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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