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unusual facts about Bacterium



Advenella kashmirensis

Advenella kashmirensis is a chemolithotrophic mesophilic, neutrophilic, tetrathionate-oxidizing, bacterium from the genus of Advenella which was isolated from the soil of a temperate orchard in Jammu and Kashmir in India.

Aerolysin

In molecular biology, aerolysin is a cytolytic pore-forming toxin exported by Aeromonas hydrophila, a Gram-negative bacterium associated with diarrhoeal diseases and deep wound infections.

Amphotericin B

It was originally extracted from Streptomyces nodosus, a filamentous bacterium, in 1955 at the Squibb Institute for Medical Research from cultures of an undescribed streptomycete isolated from the soil collected in the Orinoco River region of Venezuela.

Aquabacterium fontiphilum

Aquabacterium fontiphilum is a gram-negative non-spore-forming, motile bacterium from the genus of Aquabacterium and the family of Comamonadaceae which was isolated from a water sample from the Nature Valley in Hsinchu County in Taiwan.

Bacillus pumilus

Growth of the bacterium on plant roots prevents Rhizoctonia and Fusarium spores from germinating.

Brevibacterium

The same bacterium is also employed to ferment several cheeses such as Munster, Limburger, Port-du-Salut, Raclette and Năsal.

Brown rot

Ralstonia solanacearum, an aerobic, non-sporing, plant pathogenic bacterium that causes brown rot in a wide range of crops

Bruton Dovecote

In the 1980s the dovecote was inspected as part of an investigation into an outbreak of psittacosis a zoonotic infectious disease caused by a bacterium called Chlamydophila psittaci which is also known as parrot disease or parrot fever, at the adjoining King's School but no cause was found for the infection.

Burkholderia acidipaludis

Burkholderia acidipaludis is a gram-negative, catalase and oxidase-positive aerobic, aluminium-tolerant, non-spore-forming, non motile bacterium from the genus of Burkholderia and the family of Burkholderiaceae which was isolated from the Chinese water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis) in Vietnam and Thailand

Burkholderia bannensis

Burkholderia bannensis is a gram-negative, aerobic, non-spore-forming, bacterium from the genus of Burkholderia and the family of Burkholderiaceae which was isolated from highly acidic swamps from torpedo grass (Panicum repens) in Thailand.

Burkholderia ferrariae

Burkholderia ferrariae is a gram-negative, catalase and oxidase-positive, non-spore-forming, bacterium from the genus of Burkholderia and the family of Burkholderiaceae which was isolated from a high phosphorus iron ore in the Minas Gerais State in Brazil.

Burkholderia heleia

Burkholderia heleia is a gram-negative, nitrogen-fixing, aerobic, non-spore-forming, rod-shaped bacterium from the genus of Burkholderia and the family of Burkholderiaceae which was isolated from the Chinese water chestnut Eleocharis dulcis in acid sulfate soil areas of Vietnam.

C. bovis

Corynebacterium bovis, a pathogenic veterinary bacterium that causes mastitis and pyelonephritis in cattle

C. fallax

Clostridium fallax, an anaerobic motile gram-positive bacterium species

C. felis

Chlamydophila felis, a bacterium species endemic among house cats worldwide, primarily causing inflammation of feline conjunctiva, rhinitis and respiratory problems

Castellaniella hirudinis

Castellaniella hirudinis is a gram-negative, rod-shaped, non-spore-forming, bacterium from the genus of Castellaniella which has been isolated from the skin of a juvenile medical leech (Hirudo verbana) in Biebertal in Germany.

Chitinimonas taiwanensis

Chitinimonas taiwanensis is a gram-negative, chitinolytic, catalase and oxidase-positiv motile bacterium with a single flagellum from the genus of Chitinimonas and the family of Burkholderiaceae which was isolated from the surface water from a freshwater pond for shrimps (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) in Ping-Tung in Southern Taiwan.

Clostridium acetobutylicum

Clostridium acetobutylicum, ATCC 824, is a commercially valuable bacterium sometimes called the "Weizmann Organism", after Jewish-Russian-born Chaim Weizmann, then senior lecturer at the University of Manchester, England, used them in 1916 as a bio-chemical tool to produce at the same time, jointly, acetone, ethanol, and butanol from starch.

Dermatophilus congolensis

Dermatophilus congolensis is a gram positive bacterium and is the etiologic agent of a disease called Dermatophilosis (sometimes called Mud fever) in animals and humans, a dermatologic condition that manifests itself with the formation of crusty scabs that contain the microorganism.

Fertility factor

The Fertility factor (first named F by one of its discoverers Esther Lederberg) allows genes to be transferred from one bacterium carrying the factor to another bacterium lacking the factor by conjugation.

Frankia

Frankia is a genus of nitrogen fixing, filamentous bacteria that live in symbiosis with actinorhizal plants, similar to the Rhizobia bacteria that are found in the root nodules of legumes in the Fabaceae family.

Great Stink

Because of the miasmatic theory's predominance among scientists, the 1854 discovery by Filippo Pacini of Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that caused the disease, was ignored until it was rediscovered thirty years later by Robert Koch.

HFR

Hfr cell (also called an Hfr strain), a bacterium with a conjugative plasmid

International Coalition for Trachoma Control

Trachoma is caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis, which spreads through contact with an infected person.

Isocitrate lyase

This is the case for fungi such as Candida albicans, which inhabits the skin, mouth, GI tract, gut and vagina of mammals and can lead to systemic infections of immunocompromised patients; as well as for the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the major causative agent of tuberculosis.

Koch Glacier

It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Robert Koch, the pioneer German bacteriologist who discovered Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for most cases of tuberculosis.

Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus

Some of the biggest importers of the bacterium are Japan, the USA, and the EU.

Lactobacillus L. anticaries

Lactobacillus L. anticaries is a bacterium created by the German chemical company BASF.

Legionella gormanii

Legionella gormanii is a bacterium from the genus of Legionella which was isolated from soil samples from a creek bank in Atlanta and from the bronchial brush specimen of a patient who suffered from pneumonia.

Legionella gresilensis

Legionella gresilensis is a gram-negative, aerobic, catalase-positive, non-spore-forming bacterium with a polar flagellum from the genus of Legionella which was isolated from a shower from thermal spa water in France from the city Gréoux-les-Bains.

Legionella worsleiensis

Legionella worsleiensis is a bacterium from the genus of Legionella which was isolated from industrial cooling tower in Worsley in England.

M. bovis

Mycobacterium bovis, a slow-growing, aerobic bacterium species causative of tuberculosis in cattle

N. africana

Nocardia africana, a gram-positive bacterium species in the genus Nocardia

N. vulgaris

Nitrobacter vulgaris, a rod-shaped, Gram-negative and chemoautotrophic bacterium species

Paenibacillus vortex

Paenibacillus vortex is a species of pattern-forming bacteria, first discovered in the early 90's by Ben-Jacob's group.

Paracytophagy

The close interaction between the bacterium and the host cell membrane is thought to depend on Ezrin, a member of the ERM family of membrane-associated proteins.

Pasteurization

B. tuberculosis, the bacterium requiring the highest temperature to be killed of all milk pathogens is killed at all ranges of temperature and time which also denatured alkaline phosphatase.

Pigmentiphaga litoralis

Pigmentiphaga litoralis is a gram-negative, oxidase and catalase-positive, facultatively anaerobic non-spore-forming, non-motile, rod-shaped bacterium from the genus Pigmentiphaga, which was isolated from a tidal flat sediment in the South China Sea in China.

Propionibacterium freudenreichii

Propionibacterium freudenreichii is a Gram-positive, non-motile bacterium that plays an important role in the creation of Emmental cheese, and to some extent, Leerdammer.

Proteobacteria

Because of the great diversity of forms found in this group, the Proteobacteria are named after Proteus, a Greek god of the sea capable of assuming many different shapes; it is not named after the genus Proteus.

Pseudoalteromonas bacteriolytica

Pseudoalteromonas bacteriolytica is a marine bacterium that causes red spot disease of Saccharina japonica (species synonym Laminaria japonica).

Rufus Cole

In 1912 Cole and Alphonse Dochez developed a serum against Type 1 pneumococcus and also developed a method for testing whether an infection is caused by this or some other type of the bacterium.

Salt-rising bread

One of the main rising agents in salt rising bread is a bacterium Clostridium perfringens, along with lactobacillus and other wild microbes, as opposed to mainly yeast or baking soda.

Sulfacetamide/sulfur

The sulfacetamide inhibits the growth of the bacterium Propionibacterium acnes that is associated with acne, while sulfur facilitates the removal of dead skin cells to prevent clogged pores.

Surveyor 3

It is widely claimed that a common type of bacterium, Streptococcus mitis, accidentally contaminated the Surveyor's camera prior to launch, and that the bacteria survived dormant in the harsh lunar environment for two and one-half years, supposedly then to be detected when Apollo 12 brought the Surveyor's camera back to the Earth.

Timeline of peptic ulcer disease and Helicobacter pylori

In 2005, Barry Marshall and Robin Warren were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery that peptic ulcer disease (PUD) was primarily caused by Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium with affinity for acidic environments, such as the stomach.

V. orientalis

Vibrio orientalis, a Gram-negative bacterium species in the genus Vibrio


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