K
karyogamy, 209
keratitis, 191
kinetoplastids, 187
Kinyoun technique, 66 , 0
Klebsiella, 154
Koch, 11 , 89
Korarchaeota, 174
kuru, 264
L
Lacks, 253
Lactobacillales, 167
Lactobacilli, 144
Lactobacillus, 167 , 170
Laminaria, 220
Lancefield, 109
Lancefield group, 167
last universal common ancestor
(LUCA), 172
latent infection, 246
latent virus, 246 , 0
Leeuwenhoek, 10
Legionella, 152
Legionnaires disease, 152
Leishmania, 199
lenses, 36
leprosy, 164
Leptospira, 160
Leptothrix, 150
Leuconostoc, 167 , 170
lichen, 223 , 0
light microscopes, 43
Linnaean taxonomy, 13
Linnaeus, 13
lipopolysaccharide (LPS), 106 , 0
Lippershey, 42
Lister, 89
Listeria monocytogenes, 146
listeriosis, 146
liver flukes, 201
lophotrichous, 111 , 0
low G+C gram-positive bacteria,
146 , 163 , 166 , 166 , 0
LUCA, 172
lumen, 119 , 0
Lyme disease, 158
lymphogranuloma venereum, 148
lysis, 240 , 0
lysogen, 240 , 0
lysogenic conversion, 240
lysogenic conversion (phage
conversion), 0
lysogenic cycle, 240 , 0
lysogeny, 240 , 0
lysosome, 0
lysosomes, 120
Lytic animal viruses, 242
lytic cycle, 240 , 0M
M protein, 110
macronucleus, 194 , 0
mad cow, 264
magnetosomes, 99 , 0
Magnetospirillum
magnetotacticum, 99
magnetotaxis, 111 , 0
Magnification, 39
magnification, 0
malachite green, 63 , 68
malaria, 183
Margulis, 87 , 125
maturation, 240 , 0
mechanical vector, 232 , 0
medulla, 223 , 0
membrane fusion, 242
membrane-bound ribosome, 0
membrane-bound ribosomes, 118
meningitis, 151
Mereschkowski, 86
mesophiles, 174
metachromatic granule, 0
metachromatic granules, 98
metagenomic analysis, 146
methanogen, 176 , 0
methanogenesis, 174
methanogens, 176
Methanosarcina, 176
methicillin-resistantS. aureus, 169
methylene blue, 63
Methylocystis, 149
Methylomonas, 154miasma hypothesis, 8
miasma theory, 88
microbe, 6 , 0
microbial ecology, 143 , 0
Microbiology, 26
microbiology, 0
microbiome, 143 , 0
Micrococcus, 165
Microcystis, 162
microfilament, 0
microfilaments, 121
Micrographia, 41
micronucleus, 194 , 0
microorganism, 6 , 0
Microsporidia, 216
microsporidia, 0
microsporidiosis, 216
Microsporum, 213
microtubule, 0
microtubules, 121 , 187
mitochondria, 125
mitochondrial DNA, 125
mitochondrial matrix, 125 , 0
mitochondrion (plural:
mitochondria), 0
mitosomes, 127
mold, 24 , 0
molds, 207
monocular, 44 , 0
monoecious, 200 , 0
monotrichous, 111 , 0
mordant, 63 , 0
morphologies, 115
morphology, 93
MRSA, 73 , 169
Mucor, 212
multidrug resistant bacteria, 232
murein, 105
mutualism, 143 , 0 , 223
mycelium, 207 , 0
Mycobacterium, 164
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, 66 ,
146
mycolic acids, 105 , 0
mycology, 26 , 0
Mycoplasma, 145 , 169
Mycoplasma pneumoniae, 132Index 279