anaerobe
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- noun
- /ˌænəˈroʊb/
- Specialized
:
anaerobio
- The laboratory technician explained that anaerobes can be isolated from sample cultures without oxygen.
- facultative anaerobe
- strict anaerobe
Examples
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The majority of sepsis-causing bacteria are facultative anaerobes.
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The C. chauvoei is a strict anaerobe microorganism and it survives in the environment and in host muscles for decades.
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Twenty percent of cultures were positive for anaerobes.
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Other important factors are differences in the methods of transportation and isolation of anaerobes.
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The interactive approach uses text, graphics, and simulated lab tests to teach the identification of 20 common anaerobes.
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Producing such organisms on a commercial scale is expected to be much less expensive than some cultures that include strict anaerobes requiring complex equipment and technology.
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Therefore, Brook et al. believed that antibiotic therapy for PTA should be both penicillinase-stable and effective against anaerobes.
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In their study, Staphylococcus aureus and members of the family Enterobacteriaceae were the most frequently isolated classic pathogens; no anaerobes were identified.
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Although our rate of isolation of anaerobes was not high (13.2%), some authors did not recover any anaerobes, even though they used proper techniques.
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The microflora of the esophagus is made up of gram-positive cocci, gram-negative bacilli, and anaerobes.
Academic text (2003)
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A living thing like some bacteria that cannot live where there is oxygen
How Oxygen-Dependent
Surface Forms
Morphology
anaerobe = aerobe (opaque) = an + aer + obe
The prefix 'an-' negates the base 'aerobe', but the meaning shift to a specific type of organism is not immediately transparent.
Etymology
The word anaerobe comes from Greek parts an- meaning 'not', aer- meaning 'air', as in aeroplane, and -bios meaning 'life'. So an anaerobe is a living thing that does not need air to live.