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antitoxin
antitoxin any of a group of antibodies formed in the body as a response to the introduction of poisonous products, or toxins . By introducing small amounts of a specific toxin into the healthy body, it is possible to stimulate the production of antitoxin so that the body's defenses are already est... Read more
fever
fever elevation of body temperature above the normal level, which in humans is about 98°F (37°C) when measured orally. Fever is considered to be a symptom of a disorder rather than a disease in itself. Under normal conditions the heat that is generated by the burning of food by the body is ... Read more
sweat
sweat or perspiration, fluid secreted by the sweat glands of mammalian skin and containing water, salts, and waste products of body metabolism such as urea. The dissolved solid content of sweat is only one eighth that of an equal volume of urine, the body's main vehicle of salt excretion; howev... Read more
body snatching
body snatching the stealing of corpses from graves and morgues. Before cadavers were legally available for dissection and study by medical students, traffic in stolen bodies was profitable. Those who engaged in the illicit practice were sometimes called resurrectionists; they were active from about... Read more
pus
pus thick white or yellowish fluid that forms in areas of infection such as wounds and abscesses. It is constituted of decomposed body tissue, bacteria (or other micro-organisms that cause the infection), and certain white blood cells. These white cells form one of the defense mechanisms of the bod... Read more
tryptophan
tryptophan , organic compound, one of the 20 amino acids commonly found in animal proteins. Only the l -stereoisomer appears in mammalian protein. It is one of several essential amino acids needed in the diet; human beings cannot synthesize it from simpler metabolites. Young adults require abou... Read more
typhus
typhus any of a group of infectious diseases caused by microorganisms classified between bacteria and viruses, known as rickettsias. Typhus diseases are characterized by high fever and an early onset of rash and headache. They respond to antibiotic treatment with tetracycline and chloramphenicol an... Read more
glanders
glanders highly contagious disease of horses, mules, and donkeys, caused by the bacterium Actinobacillus mallei. Although it can be transmitted to humans, it is limited almost exclusively to handlers of equine animals. The disease causes death in infected animals or humans. Glanders has been virt... Read more
antibody
antibody protein produced by the immune system (see immunity ) in response to the presence in the body of antigens: foreign proteins or polysaccharides such as bacteria, bacterial toxins , viruses, or other cells or proteins. Such antigens are capable of inflicting damage by chemically combining ... Read more
threonine
threonine , organic compound, one of the 22 α- amino acids commonly found in animal proteins. Only the l -stereoisomer appears in mammalian protein. It is one of several essential amino acids needed in the diet; human beings cannot synthesize it from simpler metabolites. Young adults need ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Bacteria in the human body"

bacteria
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...These include the "normal flora" of the human body. Autotrophic bacteria manufacture their own food by the processes...see autotroph ). The photosynthetic bacteria include the green and purple bacteria and the cyanobacteria . Many of the thermophilic...
Anaerobic Bacteria Culture
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery: A Guide for Patients and Caregivers ...Definition An anaerobic bacteria culture is a method used...Obligate anaerobes are bacteria that can live only in...performed to identify bacteria that grow only in the...oxygen and which may cause human infection. If overlooked...cerebrospinal fluid and exudative body fluids, deep wounds...
Human Bite Infections
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy through Adolescence Human bite infections Definition...skin of the hand or other body part and introduce saliva...enough to break the skin, bacteria from the saliva in the...but it is now carrying bacteria with it. The bacteria can then invade tissues...
Body Odor
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine Body odor Definition Body...perspiration, or sweat, and bacteria on the skin. Sweat is...body secretion. When bacteria multiply on the skin...in which some of the bacteria that naturally occur on human skin can multiply. These...
Human Nature, Physical Aspects
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion ...the physical aspects of human nature leads to viewing human nature as embodied...this is not true of the body. The body as a physical...substances foreign to the body (e.g., transplanted...for the phagocytosis of bacteria, dead cells of the body...
body odours
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body body odours The human body produces a wide...through interaction with bacteria . Illness, in turn...biological standpoint, human body odours probably played...attraction. Historically, body odours have been a subject...any other part of the body?’ In order to rid ...
Immunology, Human
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Aging IMMUNOLOGY, HUMAN The immune system is an...syndromes, and cancer. The body eradicates foreign substances...immunity refers to the body's initial nonspecific...immune response, the body engages immune cells...substances (e.g., cells, bacteria, cell debris) are engulfed...
Brucellosis
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science ...bacteria within the human host. Soon after...lymphatic vessels of the body. Lymph nodes function...response to protect the body against foreign cells...animal products. In humans, brucellosis caused...can harbor Brucella bacteria, which can be transmitted to humans through ...
Antibiotics
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science ...improved the quality of human life in the twentieth...infectious diseases caused by bacteria. Antibiotic drugs are...molds, and certain soil bacteria that are harmful to disease-causing bacteria. Antibiotics can also...that enter the human body through an opening or...bacterial ...
Ehrlichiosis
Encyclopedia entry from: Complete Human Diseases and Conditions ...bacteria, transmitted to humans by ticks. KEYWORDS...by Ehrlichia sennetsu bacteria. Since the 1980s...additional of Ehrlichia bacteria that cause forms of human ehrlichiosis in the...ehrlichiosis (HME); bacteria similar or identical...interferes with the body ’ s ...

Dictionary entries related to "Bacteria in the human body"

Death
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...and struck fear into human beings through the millennia...x2013; 8). The body dies but in the religious...of the soul from the body." The church, however...traditions, mind and body are integrated, and...action of enzymes and bacteria. Bereavement, Grief...total range of emotions ...
Behring, Emil von
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...disinfecting effect upon the bacteria. He concluded that the...that living animal and human body cells show much more...than any hitherto known bacteria may almost be considered...As a result, before bacteria are killed by a disinfectant...
Eberth, Carl Joseph
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...of various parts of human and animal bodies. Particularly noteworthy...bringing the studies of bacteria and their actions...Further growth of the bacteria led to marked tissue...gelatinous exudate, rich in bacteria, filling the alveoli...
genetics
Book article from: A Dictionary of Biology ...genetic manipulation of a bacterium takes place. 1977 Techniques...and colleagues. 1978 Human insulin is produced by genetically engineered bacteria. 1983 US biochemist...place in the USA The Human Genome Project begins...sheep are used to produce human proteins in their milk...cloned from ...
Water Pollution
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...by-products joined human sewage and animal waste...to the presence of human waste in water supplies...industrial pollution of bodies of water not used for...occurs when plants and bacteria grow at abnormally high...detergents polluted even bodies of water as large as...
Mammalogy
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...understanding of how mammalian bodies function. The applications...of such knowledge to human medicine is incalculable...wildlife populations. The bacteria, viruses, and parasites of non-human mammals are often capable of infecting human hosts, thus causing...
Siphonaptera
Book article from: A Dictionary of Biology ...insects comprising the fleas. The body of a flea is laterally compressed...energy stored in the elastic body wall to leap relatively long...most notably bubonic plague bacteria, which can be carried from rats to humans by the rat flea ( Xenopsylla...
Legionnaires' Disease
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...demonstrated that a previously unknown bacterium, Legionella pneumophila, was the...temperature close to that of the human body and an atmosphere laden with carbon...In The Cambridge World History of Human Disease. Edited by Kenneth F. Kiple...
Peptococcus
Book article from: A Dictionary of Plant Sciences Peptococcus A genus of Gram-positive bacteria which are not assigned to any taxonomic family. The cells are spherical...organotrophic , and can grow only in the absence of air. They are found in the bodies of animals (including humans).
Micrococcaceae
Book article from: A Dictionary of Plant Sciences Micrococcaceae A family of bacteria in which the cells are Gram-positive and spherical, and occur in regular...in a wide range of habitats such as soil, aquatic environments, or the bodies of animals (including humans), etc.

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Questioning antibiotics.(helpful bacteria in the human body)
Magazine article from: Townsend Letter: The Examiner of Alternative Medicine; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...bacteria that live in our bodies, some are questioning...other cells in the human body by ten to one." When...one-fourth of the bacteria in a health human gut...antibiotic use, these bacteria, like others in the...passed to other types of bacteria in many ways, ...
Bacteria Outnumber Cells in Human Body
Transcript from: NPR Weekend All Things Considered; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...NPR) 07-01-2006 Bacteria Outnumber Cells in Human Body Host: DEBBIE ELLIOTT...have houseguests in our bodies, little creatures, bacteria. You know them from the...largest gathering of your bacteria. But with their own bodies...
GERM WARFARE A LOT OF BACTERIA HAVE LAYOVERS OUTSIDE THE HUMAN BODY, HUDDLING INSIDE ENDOSCOPES, AROUND FURNITURE, EVEN ON STETHOSCOPES.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 6/24/1997; 700+ words ; ...workers. But a lot of bacteria have layovers outside the human body, huddling inside...than a century, bacteria have become more...hospital infections, a bacterium called Staphylococcus...drugs. And while the bacteria are getting stronger...
Here's how TB bacteria hide and multiply in the human body
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 5/15/2008; 543 words ; ...whereby tuberculosis (TB) bacteria hide and multiply in the human body, and are now endeavouring...allow the body to identify TB bacteria more easily, and thereby...able to expose the hiding bacteria, which will allow the macrophages...
A Bane's Blessing.(controversial new theory holds that the Helicobacter pylori bacterium may be beneficial to the human body)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report; 1/14/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...controversy is new, but the bacterium's role in the human body has a long history...lived harmoniously in humans "since forever and...Last century, the bacterium had begun to disappear...nasty strain of the bacterium have only about half...
Of microbes and men - Bacteria disappearing from our bodies may harm human health
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 2/25/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...cells contained in the human body belong to nonhuman organisms - mostly bacteria, but also a smattering...to well-being that humans couldn't live without...nutrition properly without bacteria. We can't fight bad...that secretions from bacteria affect not only long...
Scientists writing hitchhikers guide to human body: ; Only 10% of your cells are yours; rest are bacteria, other microbes
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail; 9/6/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...cells in or on your body that aren't of human origin. Only about...other 90 percent are bacteria, viruses and other...densest populations of bacteria on Earth." Most of...form tiny colonies of bacteria that settle in different...even essential to humans. Bacteria in the gut...
Bald bacteria can't get a grip. (Washington Univ School of Medicine researchers develop method for destroying bacterial pili, which prevents them from gaining stronghold in the human body)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine); 6/1/1996; 700+ words ; ...collapse the scaffolding bacteria use to assemble pili...sticky tips that enable bacteria to gain a stronghold in the human body. Without the scaffolding, bacteria are unable to construct...molecular snapshots of the bacterium E. coli in the process...
U.S. bans veterinary drug to avoid possible antibiotic-resistant bacteria in humans
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 9/9/2005; 454 words ; ...antibiotic-resistant bacteria in humans is taking effect. Starting...could lead to strains of bacteria that no antibiotic could...is not a scientific body, is very low." In...about campylobacter bacteria, a growing source of...antibiotic for treating human illness," she said...
How 'flesh-eating' bacteria invade body's immune system
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 8/14/2008; 700+ words ; ...eating' or 'Strep' bacteria are able to survive and spread in the body by degrading a key immune...serious infections in human patients. The study...cells ability to fight bacteria. Without signals from...interaction of Strep bacteria with neutrophils, specialized...front-line role in ...