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Bacteria get a bad rap.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 8/23/1995; ; 700+ words
; TOXIC (say it TOX-ik) Poisonous Bacteria get a bad rap. It's true that some kinds of bacteria cause infections and disease. They give...ve got some kind of bug.'' That bug is bacteria (say it bak-TEER-ee-uh). Bacteria...
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Bacteria are indigenous to esophagus.
Newspaper article from: Cancer Weekly; 4/6/2004; 700+ words
; ...surprises concerning bacteria. For many years, doctors didn't believe that bacteria could survive in the...discovered that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori...scientists established the bacterium's link to certain...of disease-causing bacteria also reside in the esophagus...
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Bacteria: the good, the bad, and the itchy.(antibiotic use)
Magazine article from: Current Health 2, a Weekly Reader publication; 9/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...the latest horror flick--it's just the bacteria living in and on our bodies. Bacteria are everywhere: They're in our air, in...carries approximately one-quarter pound of bacteria on our bodies. They are so tiny that without...
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Endophytic bacteria and their potential applications
Magazine article from: Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...significant amount of literature pertaining to bacteria as endophytes as well, some of which...on plants. For more than 50 years, bacteria have been observed to exist inside plants...Various reports indicate that such bacteria exist in a variety of tissue types within...
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Bacteria in Oligotrophic Environments: Starvation-Survival Lifestyle.
Magazine article from: Ecology; 6/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...is not available for use by microbes. Given that bacteria or bacteria-like organisms were the first living things on this...poor, i.e., no green plant production, then bacteria have had a long evolutionary history of coping with...
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BACTERIA NOT A PROBLEM IN BOTTLED WATER DISPENSERS
PR Newswire; 5/28/1992; 700+ words
; BACTERIA NOT A PROBLEM IN BOTTLED WATER DISPENSERS...drawn from dispensers contains no harmful bacteria and poses no public health concern. Lisa...bottled water dispensers contain no harmful bacteria that could be injurious to health. There...
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Eating bacteria can be good for you
Newspaper article from: Winnipeg Free Press; 7/16/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Bold; By Dr. Scott Harding CAN eating bacteria improve your health? The idea may seem far...notice of the beneficial effects of probiotic bacteria on gastrointestinal health. Bacteria are single-celled organisms -- some good...
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Where Bacteria Get their Genes
Magazine article from: USA Today; 6/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...know which of a bacterium's genes came from...studied group of bacteria, the Gamma-Proteobacteria...load into other bacteria. This way, bacteriophages...up DNA from one bacterium and dumping it into another. Bacteria also can make contact...
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BACTERIA, ANYONE? They're the latest health craze, said to help everything from constipation to cholesterol. But do 'healthy bacteria' probiotic drinks live up to the hype?
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 3/8/2005; 700+ words
; ...probiotics. Sales of the digestion-friendly bacteria, most common in yoghurt drinks, have...term used to describe the 'friendly bacteria' which live naturally in the gut and...system. Most probiotics are lactic-acid bacteria - lactobacillus and bifidabacterium...
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Bacteria's survival strategy makes it a tough foe
Newspaper article from: Daily Breeze; 4/7/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...model for a class of bacteria that includes some of...anthracis. A rod-shaped bacterium about two-millionths...mystery. Armed with the bacteria's genome (sequenced...mechanisms that trigger the bacterium to create a spore in...system, essential to bacteria and yeast, fungi and...
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Bacteria
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science
...form of the word bacterium, which represents...single organism. Bacteria are found everywhere...surface of some bacteria cells. Coccus: A type of bacterium with a spherical...of a typical bacterium shows, the cytoplasm of all bacteria is enclosed within...
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bacteria
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
bacteria [pl. of bacterium], microscopic unicellular prokaryotic organisms...Once considered a part of the plant kingdom, bacteria were eventually placed in a separate kingdom, Monera . Bacteria fall into one of two groups, Archaebacteria...
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Bacteria, Growth and Reproduction
Book article from: World of Forensic Science
...example, if a bacterium uses organic...chemoheterotrophic bacteria), then sources...the individual bacteria, the process...the parent bacterium grows and becomes...divides the parent bacterium into two so-called daughter bacteria. This whole...
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Luminescent Bacteria
Book article from: World of Microbiology and Immunology
...luminescent process. The bacteria produce a chemical called...the chemical exits a bacterium and drifts away in the...cell densities when the bacteria are tightly packed together...luminescent genes into other bacteria allows the development...again and because a bacterium's cycle of ...
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Magnetotactic Bacteria
Book article from: World of Microbiology and Immunology
...is another means by which bacteria can actively respond to their...exist in other species of bacteria. The first magnetotactic bacterium, Aquasprilla magnetotactum...with increasing depth. The bacteria were shown to use the magnetic...
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