DEFINITION of 'Limited Liability Company-LLC'. A corporate structure whereby the members of the company cannot be held personally liable for the company's debts or liabilities. Limited liability companies (LLC) differ slightly from one country to the next.
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia. Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is an aerobic, nonfermentative, Gram-negative bacterium. It is an uncommon bacterium and human infection is difficult to treat. Initially classified as Bacterium bookeri, then renamed Pseudomonas maltophilia, S. maltophilia was also grouped in the genus Xanthomonas before eventually becoming the type species of the genus Stenotrophomonas in 1993. S. maltophilia is slightly smaller (0.7â1.8 Ã 0.4â0.7 Î¼m) than other members of the genus.
S. maltophilia is a ubiquitous, aerobic, non-fermentative, gram-negative bacillus that is closely related to the Pseudomonas species [5]. The name signifies a unit feeding on few substrates, based on the Greek roots stenos (narrow), trophos (one who feeds), and monas (a unit).