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Genus of gram-negative rodlike anaerobic bacteria producing no endospores and no pigment and living in the gut of man and animals
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bacteroides
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Bacteroides is a genus of gram-negative , obligate anaerobic bacteria . Bacteroides species are non- endospore -forming bacilli , and may be either motile or non-motile, depending on the species. The DNA base composition is 40-48% GC . Unusual in bacterial ...
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Tetracycline-resistant strains in the bacterium Bacteroides have developed a kind of tetracycline reflex.
Whenever tetracycline appears in the neighborhood, a Bacteroides transposon goes into overdrive, manufacturing R-plasmids at a frantic rate and then passing them to other bacteria in an orgy of sexual encounters a hundred times more frequent than normal.
His discharge diagnosis was fever of unknown origin with bacteroides septicemia.