Flashcards: Bacteriology

Probiotics are microorganisms that are believed to provide health benefits when consumed.

A biofilm is any group of microorganisms in which cells stick to each other and often these cells adhere to a surface.

The human microbiota is the aggregate of microorganisms, a microbiome that resides on or within a number of tissues and biofluids, including the skin, mammary glands, placenta, seminal fluid, uterus, ovarian follicles, lung, saliva, oral mucosa, conjunctiva, and gastrointestinal tracts.

A unicellular organism, also known as a single-celled organism, is an organism that consists of only one cell, unlike a multicellular organism that consists of more than one cell.

Gram staining, also called Gram's method, is a method of staining used to differentiate bacterial species into two large groups (gram-positive and gram-negative).

Reuterin is a potent antimicrobial multi-compound produced by Lactobacillus reuteri, during the metabolism of glycerol to 1,3-propanediol catalysed by the coenzyme B12-dependent diol dehydrase.

Diplorickettsia massiliensis species is an obligate intracellular, gram negative bacterium isolated from Ixodes ricinus ticks collected in Slovak republic forest geographically from southeastern part of Rovinka in 2006.

The gut–brain axis is the biochemical signaling that takes place between the gastrointestinal tract and the central nervous system.

Adhesins are cell-surface components or appendages of bacteria that facilitate adhesion or adherence to other cells or to surfaces.

Experimental Bacteriology: in Its Applications to the Diagnosis, Epidemiology, and Immunology of Infectious Diseases is a textbook on bacteriology and infectious diseases.

Eurybacteria is a taxon created by Cavalier-Smith, which includes several groups of Gram-negative bacteria.

Bacteroides ureolyticus is a species in the bacterial genus of Gram-negative, obligately anaerobic bacteria.

Azotobacter salinestris is a Gram-negative, nitrogen-fixing bacterium; its specific name, salinestris, comes from the Latin words salinus meaning saline and estris which means "living in".

'The All-Species Living Tree' Project is a collaboration between various academic groups/institutes, such as ARB, SILVA rRNA database project, and LPSN, with the aim of assembling a database of 16S rRNA sequences of all validly published species of Bacteria and Archaea.

Optochin (or ethylhydrocupreine hydrochloride) is a derivative of hydroquinine introduced in 1911 by Morgenroth and Levy with the intention to treat pneumococci infection.

Bacterial growth is the asexual reproduction, or cell division, of a bacterium into two daughter cells, in a process called binary fission.

The hok/sok system is a postsegregational killing mechanism employed by the R1 plasmid in Escherichia coli.

Heartwater (also known as cowdriosis, nintas and ehrlichiosis) is a tick-borne rickettsial disease of domestic and wild ruminants.

Microcystins (or cyanoginosins) are a class of toxins produced by certain freshwater cyanobacteria; primarily Microcystis aeruginosa but also other Microcystis, as well as members of the Planktothrix, Anabaena, Oscillatoria and Nostoc genera.

Gracilicutes (Latin: gracilis, slender, and cutis, skin, referring to the cell wall) is a controversial taxon in bacterial taxonomy.

Arcobacter is a genus of Gram-negative, spiral-shaped bacteria in the epsilonproteobacteria class.

Effective is a database of predicted bacterial secreted proteins.