vibrio
弧菌,弧菌素,弧菌病,弧菌病人
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plural vib·ri·os.Bacteriology.
- : any of several comma- or S-shaped bacteria of the genus Vibrio, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans and other animals.
Examples
During the 1892 cholera epidemic in France, he drank Cholera vibrio, a bacteria that causes the disease.
Some scientists dispute that an infection causes bleaching because they failed to isolate those vibrio bacteria from bleached coral.
He has studied the Vibrio genus of bacteria for more than 40 years and still finds it eminently fascinating.
A crabber is Florida's latest casualty of the flesh-eating bacteria Vibrio Vulnificus.
Test the vibrio isolated against the serum of an animal immunised to the Vibrio choleræ for agglutination.
Among the animal parasites may be mentioned the weevil, vibrio tritici, which feeds upon the starch cells of the grain.
The longitudinal type characterises such genera as Vibrio, Filaria, Gordius, and all the annulate animals.
Vibrio spirillum is excessively minute, colourless, and found in decomposing vegetable mixtures.
Fortunately the patient recovered, and this terrifying experiment proved indisputably the specificity of the cholera vibrio.