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Understanding antibiotic resistance
Understanding antibiotic resistance

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bacteraemia

The presence of viable bacteria in the circulating blood.

bacteria

Single cell prokaryotes. The oldest, smallest and most numerous organisms living on Earth. (Singular: bacterium)


bacterial endocarditis

A bacterial infection of the inner lining of the heart (the endocardium).


bactericidal

Antibiotic that kills bacteria


bacteriophage

A virus that infects bacteria.  


bacteriostatic

Antibiotics that stop or slow bacterial growth. 


batch fermentation

An industrial process for the large-scale production of microbes and/or metabolites in liquid culture. After the microbe is introduced to the culture no additional growth medium is added.

Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus

Gram-negative bacteria that prey on other bacteria, attacking and killing them.

binary fission

A form of asexual reproduction used by bacteria and other prokaryotic cells in which one cell divides to form two.

biofilm

An aggregation of bacterial cells embedded in a carbohydrate matrix and attached to a surface or tissue.


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