What's the difference between bacteria and ecthyma?
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).
Ecthyma
Definition:
(n.) A cutaneous eruption, consisting of large, round pustules, upon an indurated and inflamed base.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ecthyma contagiosum, or orf, is an uncommon dermatosis resulting from cutaneous infection with sheep pox virus.
(2) Clinically, they resembled ecthyma gangrenosum associated with Pseudomonas septicemia.
(3) Both agents were considered to be safe and effective medications for treating impetigo and ecthyma.
(4) Bullae and nodules, as well as ecthyma gangrenosum, can be early cutaneous signs of pseudomonal sepsis.
(5) The problems of combat measures against contagious ecthyma (scabby mouth) of sheep and the human Orf-virus infections are discussed.
(6) Patients survived four episodes of ecthyma gangrenosum when granulocyte transfusions were used and the single episode in which they were not used was fatal.
(7) Typically, ecthyma gangrenosum occurs in patients with septicemia and risk factors (chemotherapy, neutropenia).
(8) A 4-year-old girl with leukaemia developed fever and ecthyma gangrenosum.
(9) Contagious pustular dermatitis (CPD, contagious ecthyma, Orf) is a highly contagious viral disease afflicting sheep and goats.
(10) On the basis of these serologic findings and previously published serologic or clinical data, it is now known that the alpaca can be infected with the following viruses: parainfluenza-3, bovine respiratory syncytial virus, bovine herpesvirus-1, bluetongue virus, border disease virus, influenza A virus, rotavirus, rabies virus, vesicular stomatitis virus, foot-and-mouth disease virus, and contagious ecthyma virus.
(11) Ecthyma gangrenosum has not been described during the course of blood stream invasion with Pseudomonas maltophilia, although it occurs with a 30% frequency in Pseudomonas aeruginosa septicemia.
(12) Intracellular viral particles were present, and sections of skin were positive for ovine contagious ecthyma virus by a fluorescent antibody test.
(13) Restriction enzyme analysis with KpnI revealed heterogeneity among 10 different strains of contagious ecthyma virus from sheep, musk ox, Dall sheep and humans.
(14) Two of the isolates (CEV-29A and CEV-378) were from outbreaks of ecthyma in sheep and one (CEV-102) from a human case of orf.
(15) One case was confirmed as prosthetic valve endocarditis and one case was complicated by recurrent attacks of ecthyma gangrenosum.
(16) Most notable of naturally occurring viral infections in the NWC would be rabies, ecthyma, and a recently described blindness neuropathy that has been associated with the equine herpesvirus I. NWC can be infected experimentally with agents causing hoof-and-mouth disease and vesicular stomatitis, but naturally occurring cases do not seem to occur.
(17) A retrospective analysis of all cases of P. aeruginosa skin infections seen at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital since 1962 revealed 16 episodes of the infection (ecthyma gangrenosum, 8 episodes, 7 patients; cellulitis, 8 episodes, 7 patients) in which blood cultures were uniformly negative for P. aeruginosa.
(18) Multiple gangrenous ecthymas, consisting of deep ulcers, induration and inflammation, were observed in the skin over the entire body.
(19) Sera were evaluated for antibodies against respiratory syncytial virus, ovine progressive pneumonia, infectious bovine rhinotracheitis, PI-3, bovine viral diarrhea, brucellosis, leptospirosis, contagious ecthyma, bluetongue, and epizootic hemorrhagic disease.
(20) Infectious and non-infectious complications may be accompanied by typical skin alterations, such as ecthyma in sepsis caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, multiple ulcers due to embolic infarct, or hypersensitivity reactions mediated by an immunological process.