What's the difference between microbicide and microorganism?
Microbicide
Definition:
(n.) Any agent detrimental to, or destructive of, the life of microbes or bacterial organisms.
Example Sentences:
(1) In experiments on dogs using the chemiluminescent method and nitroblue-tetrazole reaction the authors found out that leucocytes while passing through the pulmonary vessels bed, in contrast to the spleen increase the generation of active microbicidal forms of oxygen.
(2) Estradiol 17 beta prevented the fall in the microbicidal activity of the myeloperoxidase-H2O2-halide system induced by high H2O2 concentrations.
(3) The instrument disinfectants showed microbicidal efficacy up to 12 days at working concentrations slightly increased in relation to the concentrations listed by the DGHM.
(4) Alveolar macrophages from the 3 groups of subjects had similar limited microbicidal ability for the obligate intracellular protozoan, Toxoplasma gondii, and similar numbers of elastase receptors and affinity for elastase.
(5) Loss of succinate-dependent respiration was closely associated with HOCl and myeloperoxidase-mediated microbicidal activity against P. aeruginosa and was also an early event in the oxidant-mediated metabolic dysfunctions of E. coli.
(6) These studies are discussed in relation to the role of the superoxide anion and chemiluminescence in the microbicidal activity of the polymorphonuclear leukocyte.
(7) Myeloperoxidase, a granule-associated enzyme of neutrophils and monocytes, combines with H2O2 and chloride to form a potent microbicidal system that contributes to phagocyte antimicrobial activity.
(8) With this method of cryopreservation the phagocytic function of mature neutrophils is retained to some extent but their capacity to reduce NBT and their microbicidal activity are completely lost.
(9) Phagocytic and microbicidal activity of HC-treated animal alveolar macrophages (AM) decreases.
(10) The time course of disease revealed regular changes of the most important components of the leukocytic microbicidal system and indices of the NBT test activity depending on a stage, degree of severity, clinical type and type of applied therapy.
(11) The effects of normal platelets containing serotonin and of reagent serotonin on the subnormal microbicidal activity of CH leukocytes were evaluated.
(12) Treatment with rIFN gamma greatly enhanced both respiratory burst and microbicidal activity of blood monocytes, but had no effect on AM respiratory burst.
(13) Human polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNs) possess a potent oxygen-dependent microbicidal system that depends on the activity of a stimulus-activated multicomponent nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) oxidase.
(14) Diurnal rhythms of phagocytic activity and microbicidal activity also showed two peaks.
(15) To determine the relevance of this inhibition to microbicidal activity, the effect of lysosomotropic weak bases on interactions between human neutrophils and Staphylococcus aureus 502a was studied.
(16) Production of these microbicidal oxygen metabolites by monocytes from neonates and healthy adult volunteers was equivalent.
(17) The fundamental physiological significance of this phenomenon is to provide the phagocytes with an efficient microbicidal mechanism.
(18) These findings suggest that Fe2+ and apotransferrin or apolactoferrin can generate OH.via an H2O2 intermediate with toxicity to microorganisms, and raise the possibility that such a mechanism may contribute to the microbicidal activity of phagocytes.
(19) These data establish the existence in human neutrophils of a second mechanism that exerts microbicidal activity against certain Candida species; the mechanism is unrelated to myeloperoxidase, iodination, or to the direct effects of H(2)O(2) generated by the endogenous metabolic processes of the neutrophil.
(20) This study is an attempt to understand the mechanism of macrophage activation and its effect on the microbicidal properties of the macrophage.
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.