Microbiology Demystified
parts of the body (for example, through the ingestion of water that is contaminated with fecal matter.) Shigella. Shigella caus ...
Pasteurella-Haemophilus. Pasteurella-Haemophilus are very small faculta- tively anaerobic gram-negative, rod shaped bacteria, t ...
thought to be viruses that invaded cells. They are classified as bacteria because they have bacterial cell walls and contain DNA ...
thought to be viruses because they lack a cell wall. However, they have a cell membrane, DNA and RNA, which distinguishes them f ...
Staphylococcus epidermis: Staphylococcus epidermis, also known as S. epidermis, is the frequent cause of urinary tract infectio ...
Endospore-Forming Gram-Positive Rods and Cocci Endospore forming, gram-positive rods and cocci consist mainly of rod-shaped bact ...
Clostridium perfringes. Clostridium perfringes, also known as C. perfringes, causes myonecrosis—better known as gas gangrene—wh ...
Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae. Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiaecauses erysi- peloid, which is red, swollen and painful lesions, freq ...
Nocardia Forms Nocardia are a group of a long thread-like cylinder shaped bacteria that inhabits soil and need oxygen to grow (a ...
Archaea that do not have cell walls are called (a) methanogenic archaea (b) cell wall–less Archaea (c) sulfate reducers (d) ext ...
11 CHAPTER 167 The Eukaryotes: Fungi, Algae, Protozoa, and Helminths Throughout this book you’ve learned that some kinds of micr ...
Fungi Fungi have been studied systematically for 250 years, although ancient peoples learned of fermentation (enabled by fungi) ...
have a thallus many meters and penetrate its surroundings. In the hyphae of fungi there is a portion called the vegetative hypha ...
dery substance that is sometimes found coating fruits and leaves is a yeast. Yeasts can also reproduce sexually. MOLDS When a mo ...
Basidiomycota: Also called club fungus, basidiomycota includes mush- rooms, toadstools, smuts, and rusts. Sexually produced bas ...
how they reproduce. The algae that reproduce sexually will latter reproduce asexually. All algae reproduce asexually. Unicellula ...
Many dinoflagellates have chlorophyll a and c pigments as well as the yellow and orange pigments, carotenoids. Depending on thei ...
ing, and suspension agent for ice cream, pudding, frozen foods, toothpaste, floor polish, cough syrup, and even jelly beans. The ...
Multiple fission (schizogony):Multiple fission is when the nucleus of the cell divides multiple times before the rest of the ce ...
excreted in the feces of infected people. It is the causative agent of amebic dysentery. Naegleria fowleri: This ameba causes p ...
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