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The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 genus.
WordNet
n. curved rodlike motile bacterium [syn: vibrion]
Wikipedia
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 anaerobes that test positive for oxidase and do not form spores. All members of the genus are motile and have polar flagella with sheaths. Vibrios typically possess two chromosomes, which is unusual for bacteria. The chromosomes each have a distinct and independent origin of replication, and are conserved together over time in the genus. Recent phylogenies have been constructed based on a suite of genes (multilocus sequence analysis).
O. F. Müller (1773, 1786) described eight species of the genus Vibrio (included in Infusoria), three of which were spirilliforms. Some of the other species are today assigned to eukaryote taxa, e.g., to the euglenoid Peranema or to the diatom Bacillaria. However, Vibrio Müller, 1773 became regarded as the name of a zoological genus, and the name of the bacterial genus became Vibrio Pacini, 1854. Filippo Pacini isolated micro-organisms he called "vibrions" from cholera patients in 1854, because of their motility.
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.