What's the difference between microbe and microorganism?

Microbe


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Microbion

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This baseline data will be used to monitor antibody activity to these common microbes along with several other parameters in a group of ill surgical patients.
  • (2) The results are consistent with the hypothesis that mice are more responsive immunologically to antigens of nonindigenous bacteria than they are to antigens of certain microbes indigenous to their gastrointestinal tracts.
  • (3) The concept of a mechanism-based etiology, rather than of a microbe-based one, deserves consideration for this complex, host-parasite interaction.
  • (4) Its mean indices (mean g) varied within the limits of 500 to 2000 microbe cells per 1 individual, maximum index rarely exceeded 30 000 microbe cells.
  • (5) Coagulase-negative staphylococci, dominated by Staphylococcus epidermidis, were the commonest microbe group found (83% of persons sampled).
  • (6) Thus, has been shown a leading role of transmission of plague microbe by fleas in the maintenance of natural nidality of this zoonosis.
  • (7) These results indicate that a primary effect of A. oryzae is stimulation of fiber digestion by rumen microbes.
  • (8) The immediate secretion of iPH in response to feeding and its relationship to DFT stimulation may represent a systemic physiological process by which resistance of teeth to decay is enhanced at a time when the acidogenic potential of the oral microbes is maximum.
  • (9) This is due to competition for binding between progesterone and naphthaquinone, which have a structural similarity; and the latter is an essential nutrient for the microbe.
  • (10) The outcome of pregnancy was related to age, number of aspirations and to the presence or not of microbes.
  • (11) That raises the possibility of manipulating the mix of gut microbes early in development to reduce the risk.
  • (12) The MHC class II antigen variation in the fallopian tube epithelium seen in this study may indicate a hormonal regulation that could reflect variable need for local immunocompetence during the menstrual cycle: a preovulatory need for immunoreactivity against invading microbes and postovulatory an optimal survival of the foreign preimplantation embryo.
  • (13) The processes of digestion (the physical disintegration and chemical breakdown by gut microbes and secreted enzymes) may affect the radionuclide uptake by an animal.
  • (14) The RNA-polymerases were used to screen for enzyme inhibitors produced by microbes.
  • (15) subtilis contamination of guinea pigs altered the antibody content to these microbes but insignificantly, whereas S. albus and S. faecalis stimulated the antibody genesis considerably.
  • (16) Periapical tissue from 58 cases requiring periapical surgery was examined histologically and cultured for the presence of microbes.
  • (17) The results indicate that aniline degrading populations of these various microbial communities exhibit different activities probably depending on the extent of adaptation to pollutants to which the microbes are exposed.
  • (18) Interestingly, alteration of either the microB or E3 site in a 70-base-pair fragment of the IgH enhancer that lacks the binding site for OCTA abolished enhancer activity in lymphoid cells completely.
  • (19) His great contribution will be to impress on people that we live in this vast biotic of microbes.
  • (20) To lower the role of natural antibacterial activity of biological substrates from humans and laboratory animals in microbiological assay of bleomycin (bleomycin) with B. subtilis ATCC 6633 as the test-microbe, it was suggested to increase the procedure sensitivity by using the medium modification.

Microorganism


Definition:

  • (n.) Any microscopic form of life; -- particularly applied to bacteria and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious diseases.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fastidious microorganisms were accurately detected on C agar as well as on BA+MK.
  • (2) 3) The first who presumed an independent state of these microorganisms, was Kohlert (1968), from the work of which the epithet for correct name, i.e.
  • (3) Sorbitol, by itself or in combination with mannitol is slowly converted to acids by the plaque microorganisms.
  • (4) Kinetic studies on the uptake of radioactive L-aspartate and K+ in the microorganism Streptomyces hydrogenans were performed.
  • (5) The hypothesis was tested that plaque, as a complex soil comprising microorganisms, cell debris, salivary deposits and other ill-defined organic and inorganic components, would be susceptible to removal by a rinse with high detersive action.
  • (6) To our knowledge a recurrent infection with this microorganism has not previously been reported in the literature.
  • (7) It is apparent that in the development of reactive arthritis the patient fails in his first line of defence against the invading microorganism.
  • (8) Based on the principles of adaptational mutations and genetic exchange of catabolic activities, it becomes possible to select and engineer microorganisms that are suitable for the degradation of recalcitrant compounds.
  • (9) At necropsy 1 of the 21 animals exhibited tuberculous lesions, and acid-fast microorganisms were identified on direct smears of lymphatic tissue of a second animal.
  • (10) Dictated by underlying physicochemical constraints, deceived at times by the lulling tones of the siren entropy, and constantly vulnerable to the vagaries of other more pervasive forms of biological networking and information transfer encoded in the genes of virus and invading microorganisms, protein biorecognition in higher life forms, and particularly in mammals, represents the finely tuned molecular avenues for the genome to transfer its information to the next generation.
  • (11) Soap is regarded as a cosmetic rather than an agent for removal of microorganisms.
  • (12) The anti-rickettsial activity of this drug was evaluated with regard to the determination of the numbers of surviving microorganism (LID100) and the in vivo concentration of erythromycin in both arthropod hosts.
  • (13) Owing to its broad spectrum of action (covering both gram-positive and gram-negative microorganisms and anaerobes) and its consistently strong molar action, mezlocillin is well suited as a beta-lactam combination component for intensive care patients.
  • (14) Streptococcus B was the microorganism most frequently isolated (26.7%), followed by S. epidermidis (19.8%), E. coli (13.7%) and S. aureus (10.68%).
  • (15) Several subcellular fractions were derived from OK-432 and only the cytoplasmic and protoplast membrane fractions showed cytotoxic activity against the OK-432-sensitive tumor cell lines, although the cytotoxicity obtained was greatly less than the whole microorganism OK-432.
  • (16) It is not known whether origins are genetically defined sequences analogous to those that control initiation of replication in microorganisms.
  • (17) Attention is drawn to the shortcomings in our current knowledge of the scale of turnover of the sulphur cycle and of our understanding of the microorganisms involved in specialized environments.
  • (18) We classified microorganisms from the clinical laboratory by using information provided by the Gram stain and antibiotic sensitivity profiles obtained with the Bauer-Kirby technique.
  • (19) The microbial overgrowth syndrome of the small bowel (MOS) is characterized by clinically found symptoms of increased metabolic activities of microorganisms existing in a great number in the intestinal juice of these patients.
  • (20) Six cultures of Bacillus and six lot numbers of Trypticase soy agar (BBL) were used to test the hypothesis that a microorganism grown on various lot numbers of the same chromatogram.