eubacteria

Definitions of eubacteria

1. noun

   a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella
   synonyms: eubacterium, true bacteria

   types:

   B, bacillus

   aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil

   cocci, coccus

   any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria

   coccobacillus

   a bacterial cell intermediate in morphology between a coccus and a bacillus; a very short bacillus

   spirilla, spirillum

   any flagellated aerobic bacteria having a spirally twisted rodlike form

   clostridia, clostridium

   spindle-shaped bacterial cell especially one swollen at the center by an endospore

   Clostridium botulinum, botulinum, botulinus

   anaerobic bacterium producing botulin the toxin that causes botulism

   clostridium perfringens

   anaerobic Gram-positive rod bacterium that produces epsilon toxin; can be used as a bioweapon

   blue-green algae, cyanobacteria

   predominantly photosynthetic prokaryotic organisms containing a blue pigment in addition to chlorophyll; occur singly or in colonies in diverse habitats; important as phytoplankton

   phototrophic bacteria, phototropic bacteria

   green and purple bacteria; energy for growth is derived from sunlight; carbon is derived from carbon dioxide or organic carbon

   pseudomonad

   bacteria usually producing greenish fluorescent water-soluble pigment; some pathogenic for plants and animals

   xanthomonad

   bacteria producing yellow non-water-soluble pigments; some pathogenic for plants

   nitric bacteria, nitrobacteria

   soil bacteria that convert nitrites to nitrates

   nitrosobacteria, nitrous bacteria

   soil bacteria that oxidize ammonia to nitrites

   thiobacillus

   small rod-shaped bacteria living in sewage or soil and oxidizing sulfur

   spirillum

   spirally twisted elongate rodlike bacteria usually living in stagnant water

   vibrio, vibrion

   curved rodlike motile bacterium

   corynebacterium

   any species of the genus Corynebacterium

   listeria

   any species of the genus Listeria, a bacteria that can contaminate food and make people very sick

   enteric bacteria, enterics, enterobacteria, entric

   rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria; most occur normally or pathogenically in intestines of humans and other animals

   endospore-forming bacteria

   a group of true bacteria

   rickettsia

   any of a group of very small rod-shaped bacteria that live in biting arthropods (as ticks and mites) and cause disease in vertebrate hosts; they cause typhus and other febrile diseases in human beings

   chlamydia

   coccoid rickettsia infesting birds and mammals; cause infections of eyes and lungs and genitourinary tract

   mycoplasma

   any of a group of small parasitic bacteria that lack cell walls and can survive without oxygen; can cause pneumonia and urinary tract infection

   actinomycete

   any bacteria (some of which are pathogenic for humans and animals) belonging to the order Actinomycetales

   actinomyces

   soil-inhabiting saprophytes and disease-producing plant and animal parasites

   mycobacteria, mycobacterium

   rod-shaped bacteria some saprophytic or causing diseases

   gliding bacteria, myxobacter, myxobacteria, myxobacterium, slime bacteria

   bacteria that form colonies in self-produced slime; inhabit moist soils or decaying plant matter or animal waste

   lactobacillus

   a Gram-positive rod-shaped bacterium that produces lactic acid (especially in milk)

   strep, streptococci, streptococcus

   spherical Gram-positive bacteria occurring in pairs or chains; cause e.g. scarlet fever and tonsillitis

   spirochaete, spirochete

   parasitic or free-living bacteria; many pathogenic to humans and other animals

   Bacillus anthracis, anthrax bacillus

   a species of bacillus that causes anthrax in humans and in animals (cattle and swine and sheep and rabbits and mice and guinea pigs); can be used a bioweapon

   Bacillus globigii, Bacillus subtilis, grass bacillus, hay bacillus

   a species of bacillus found in soil and decomposing organic matter; some strains produce antibiotics

   Yersinia pestis

   a bacillus bacterium that causes the plague; aerosolized bacteria can be used as a bioweapon

   Brucella

   an aerobic Gram-negative coccobacillus that causes brucellosis; can be used as a bioweapon

   nostoc

   found in moist places as rounded jellylike colonies

   trichodesmium

   large colonial bacterium common in tropical open-ocean waters; important in carbon and nitrogen fixation

   purple bacteria

   free-living Gram-negative pink to purplish-brown bacteria containing bacteriochlorophyll

   Pseudomonas solanacearum, ring rot bacteria

   causes brown rot in tomatoes and potatoes and tobacco etc

   sulfur bacteria, sulphur bacteria, thiobacteria

   any bacterium of the genus Thiobacillus

   Spirillum minus, ratbite fever bacterium

   a bacterium causing ratbite fever

   Vibrio comma, comma bacillus

   comma-shaped bacteria that cause Asiatic cholera

   Vibrio fetus

   bacteria that cause abortion in sheep

   C. diphtheriae, Corynebacterium diphtheriae, Klebs-Loeffler bacillus

   a species of bacterium that causes diphtheria

   L. monocytogenes, Listeria monocytogenes

   the type species of the genus Listeria; can cause meningitis, encephalitis, septicemia, endocarditis, abortion, abscesses, listeriosis

   escherichia

   a genus of enteric bacteria

   klebsiella

   a genus of nonmotile rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some cause respiratory and other infections

   salmonella

   rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; cause typhoid fever and food poisoning; can be used as a bioweapon

   shigella

   rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some are pathogenic for warm-blooded animals; can be used as a bioweapon

   erwinia

   rod-shaped motile bacteria that attack plants

   C. psittaci, Chlamydia psittaci

   bacteria responsible for the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia

   C. trachomatis, Chlamydia trachomatis

   bacteria responsible for the sexually transmitted diseases chlamydia and lymphogranuloma venereum

   PPLO, pleuropneumonialike organism

   a mycoplasma resistant to antibiotics that causes a kind of pneumonia in humans

   streptomyces

   aerobic bacteria (some of which produce the antibiotic streptomycin)

   Mycobacterium tuberculosis, tubercle bacillus

   cause of tuberculosis

   Mycobacterium leprae, leprosy bacillus

   cause of leprosy

   staph, staphylococci, staphylococcus

   spherical Gram-positive parasitic bacteria that tend to form irregular colonies; some cause boils or septicemia or infections

   Lactobacillus acidophilus, acidophilus

   a bacterium that is used to make yogurt and to supplement probiotics

   treponema

   spirochete that causes disease in humans (e.g. syphilis and yaws)

   borrelia

   cause of e.g. European and African relapsing fever

   Borrelia burgdorferi, Lime disease spirochete

   cause of Lyme disease; transmitted primarily by ticks of genus Ixodes

   leptospira

   important pathogens causing Weil's disease or canicola fever

   type of:

   moneran, moneron

   organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesis

   bacteria, bacterium

   (microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants