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Curved rodlike motile bacterium
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vibrio
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Vibrio \Vib"ri*o\, n.; pl. E. Vibrios , L. Vibriones . [NL., fr. L. vibrare to vibrate, to move by undulations.] (Biol.) A genus of motile bacteria characterized by short, slightly sinuous filaments and an undulatory motion; also, an individual of this ...
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n. curved rodlike motile bacterium [syn: vibrion ]
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Vibrio is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria , possessing a curved-rod shape (comma shape), several species of which can cause foodborne infection , usually associated with eating undercooked seafood. Typically found in salt water , Vibrio species are facultative ...
Usage examples of vibrio.
Whenever this cave flooded, worm larvae and Vibrio together would be washed into the stream.
These include botulism, brucellosis, listeriosis, and Vibrio vulnificus.
To generate the fine tuned radiance, the squid hosts acommunity of luminescent bacteria called Vibrio fischeri.
Our Gardener is, in my opinion, about to dip the solar system, and the human bacillus, the little mortal vibrio which twisted and wriggled upon the outer rind of the earth, will in an instant be sterilized out of existence.
It is when confronted by the overwhelming signal of free molecules of endotoxin, evoking memories of vibrios in great numbers, that the limulus flies into panic, launches all his defenses at once, and destroys himself.
It is when confronted by the overwhelming signal of free molecules of endotoxin, evoking memories of vibrios in great numbers, that the limulus flies into panic, launches all his defenses at once, and destroys himself.
These include botulism, brucellosis, listeriosis, and Vibrio vulnificus.
In the largest metropolitan hospitals, in Santiago or Bombay, the particular strain of Vibrio cholerae could be sequenced completely, and a de novo drug designed and synthesized in a matter of hours.
When Euprymna are newly hatched and devoid of bacteria, only Vibrio fischeri can enter and "infect" their light organs.
But these vibrios move among the corpuscles of the blood just as a snake moves through the grass, to quote Pasteur.