- chemoautotrophic bacterium
- a bacterium that is autotrophic and obtains energy by the oxidation of inorganic compounds of iron, nitrogen, sulfur, or hydrogen; none of these are pathogenic.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
chemoautotrophic bacterium
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