What's the difference between bacteria and bug?

Bacteria


Definition:

  • (n.p.) See Bacterium.
  • (pl. ) of Bacterium

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition to oncogenes, the transferred DNA contains genes that direct the synthesis and exudation of opines, which are used as nutrients by the bacteria.
  • (2) The pH gradient measured with dimethyloxazolidine-2,4-dione and acetylsalicylic acid was very small in both bacteria at a high pH above 8, and was not affected significantly by the addition of CCCP.
  • (3) The causative organisms included viruses, fungi, and bacteria of both high and low pathogenicity.
  • (4) Anaerobes, in particular Bacteroides spp., are the predominant bacteria present in mixed intra-abdominal infections, yet their critical importance in the pathogenicity of these infections is not clearly defined.
  • (5) During the digestion of these radiolabeled bacteria, murine bone marrow macrophages produced low-molecular-weight substances that coeluted chromatographically with the radioactive cell wall marker.
  • (6) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
  • (7) Thirty-two strains of pectin-fermenting rumen bacteria were isolated from bovine rumen contents in a rumen fluid medium which contained pectin as the only added energy source.
  • (8) This capacity is expressed during incubation of the bacteria with the substrate and needs a source of carbon and other energy metabolites.
  • (9) Preincubation of the bacteria at 56 degrees C for 30 minutes and ultraviolet irradiation resulted in a noticeable decrease in adherence.
  • (10) An sdh-specific transcript of about 3,450 nucleotides was detected in vegetative bacteria.
  • (11) The authors present the first results on the utilization of fish infusion (IFP) as a basic medium for the cultivation of bacteria.
  • (12) Phospholipid changes occurring at later stages in the lytic cycle of infected bacteria are more prominent than those at earlier time intervals.
  • (13) The most commonly encountered organisms were aerobic bacteria (91%), anaerobes (74%), and fungi (48%).
  • (14) Resistance to antibiotics have been detected in food poisoning bacteria, namely Salmonella typhimurium, Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium perfringens.
  • (15) Bacteria can stop or lessen antibodies synthesis process.
  • (16) Among the agents triggering such an infection Chlamydia (30.9% of the cases of non-gonorrhoic urethritis), as well as mycoplasma, ureaplasma, anaerobic bacteria and herpes simplex viruses have gained particular significance.
  • (17) Mu does not grow lytically in or kill him bacteria but can lysogenize such hosts.
  • (18) Tunnel-like formations at different depths of the oral epithelium contained higher numbers of bacteria than those seen on the adjacent oral surface.
  • (19) The cells were taken from cultures in low-density balanced exponential growth, and the experiments were performed quickly so that the bacteria were in a uniform physiological state at the time of measurement.
  • (20) Subgingival plaque was sampled and the presence or absence of the above mentioned bacteria assessed with BANA reagent cards (Perio Scan).

Bug


Definition:

  • (n.) A bugbear; anything which terrifies.
  • (n.) A general name applied to various insects belonging to the Hemiptera; as, the squash bug; the chinch bug, etc.
  • (n.) An insect of the genus Cimex, especially the bedbug (C. lectularius). See Bedbug.
  • (n.) One of various species of Coleoptera; as, the ladybug; potato bug, etc.; loosely, any beetle.
  • (n.) One of certain kinds of Crustacea; as, the sow bug; pill bug; bait bug; salve bug, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The winter vomiting bug norovirus, which also puts strain on the NHS every winter because it leads to wards having to close, has not yet become a major problem, the latest evidence indicates.
  • (2) Cruddas, who has several BNP councillors in his Barking constituency, told MPs in the House of Commons: "What's been uncovered in the internal workings of the BNP appears to be systematic illegality in terms of data protection, bugging, money laundering, theft and the operation of the Political Parties Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
  • (3) Data from 1985 and 1986 showed that 85.6% of the bugs captured inside houses were notified by the population, which confirms that the best way to maintain the epidemiologic surveillance of Chagas' disease by the mobilization of local communities for effective participation in vector surveillance.
  • (4) The diplomatic bag must only contain articles for official use (not kidnapped opposition politicians ), and the collection of information can only be carried out by "lawful means" (not by bugging the state department ).
  • (5) The number of people affected by an outbreak of the winter vomiting bug could have passed 1 million, the Health Protection Agency has reported.
  • (6) The BUG increases 3.9-fold in DNA content from day 0 (day of birth) to day 6 postnatally; the epithelium grows proportionately more than the mesenchyme during this period (12-fold vs. 2.3-fold).
  • (7) Informed sources in Germany said Merkel was livid about the reports that the NSA had bugged her phone and was convinced, on the basis of a German intelligence investigation, that the reports were utterly substantiated.
  • (8) The polymerase chain reaction was used to amplify the highly variable region of the kinetoplast minicircle of Trypanosoma cruzi directly in biological samples (feces of infected Triatomine bugs, blood samples of experimentally infected mice, and artificially infected human blood samples).
  • (9) At 67, Young apparently feels the strain as much as everyone: "[His] wrist bugs him, and he has to tape it when he plays," Sampedro said.
  • (10) Gordon has been doing live insect cooking demonstrations across the United States since 1998 and estimates that he’s cooked bugs for some 100,000 people.
  • (11) More than 150,000 people were struck down with the winter vomiting bug during the festive period, the latest figures suggest.
  • (12) It seemed to me that Kafka had trouble imagining a universe where Gregor the Bug scurried about on the street, doing all kinds of wild things.
  • (13) Early stages of differentiation of the oocytes and nurse cells are comparatively studied in the polytrophic ovarioles in larvae, pupae and imago of the butterfly Laspeyresia pomonella and in the telotrophic ovarioles in larvae and imago of the bug Eurigaster integriceps.
  • (14) A good example of this is the Innovative Medicines Initiative's new drugs for bad bugs programme .
  • (15) Indeed, diglycerides constitute the largest neutral lipid fraction in the hemolymph of silkmoths, locusts, cockroaches, bugs, etc.
  • (16) Television's natural instinct was now simply to go on and on, to consume the infinite time stretching out in front of it, like those cartoons where Bugs Bunny is frantically laying down railway track so the train he is on can keep moving.
  • (17) But I've changed my mind – I think the Olympic bug might have caught on.
  • (18) And Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein has been bugged, of course.
  • (19) The information was fed into a DNA synthesizer, which produced short strands of the bug's DNA.
  • (20) Using this method, far more bugs can be used than in conventional xenodiagnosis increasing the likelyhood of detecting at least one infected T. infestans.

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