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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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