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| Growing in the absence of oxygen |
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| Antibiotic susceptibility testing |
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| Determining the susceptibility of bacteria to specific antibiotics |
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| A defined mass of bacteria assumed to have grown from a single organism |
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| Able to be transmitted directly or indirectly form one individual to another |
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| A growth of microorganisms in a special medium; the process of growing microorganisms in the laboratory |
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| The nucleic acid that carries genetic information and that is found primarily in the nucleus of all living cells; deoxyribonucleic acid |
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| Bacteria that require special nutritional factors to survive |
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| Reproductive process in which the parent cell divides into two identical independent cells |
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| Designation for bacteria that lose the crystal violet (purple stain) and retain the safranin (red stain) in the Gram stain procedure |
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| Designation for bacteria that retain the crystal violet (purple stain) in the Gram stain procedure |
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| A differential stain used to classify bacteria |
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| The organism from which a parasite obtains nutrients and in which some or part of the parasite's life cycle is completed |
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| Filaments of a mold that make up the mycelium |
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| A diagnostic method using antigen-antibody reactions |
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| A pathological condition caused by growth of microorganisms in the host |
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| A substance used to provide nutrients for growing microorganisms |
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| Minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) |
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| Minimum concentration of an antibiotic required to inhibit the growth of a microorganism |
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| Mass of hyphae that makes up the vegetative body of molds |
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| Infection caused by fungi |
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| Microorganisms that are normally present at a specific site |
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| A microorganism that causes disease in the host only when normal defense mechanisms are impaired or absent |
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| An organism or agent capable of causing disease in a host |
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| The nucleic acid that is important in protein synthesis and is found in all living cells; ribonucleic acid |
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| Motile bacteria having a helical or spiral shape |
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| In the antibiotic susceptibility test, the area around an antibiotic disk that contains no bacterial growth |
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