Citations:bacteria

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English citations of bacteria

single bacterium
  • 1864, Dr. Roth, “Animalcules in Diseased Blood”, in The British Journal of Homoeopathy[1], volume XXII, number LXXXVIII, page 221:
    Dr. Davaine examined the diseased blood under the microscope ten hours after death, and found infusoria of the bacteria kind in it.
  • 1884 February, F.W. Entrikin, “The Bacillus Tuberculosis”, in St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal[2], pages 119–120:
    But we must not forget that Klebs sowed tuberculous matter on nutritive soil, cultivated micro-organisms, and succeeded by inoculations in producing tuberculosis; but the microbe he cultivated was a bacteria, an entirely different organism from those of Koch. Kleb's monas tuberculosum is globular, the bacillus tuberculosis is rod shaped; one has a motion of its own, the other only molecular movement; one multiplies in fluids, the other does not.

English citations of bacteriae

multiple individual bacteria
  • 1864, Dr. Roth, “Animalcules in Diseased Blood”, in The British Journal of Homoeopathy[3], volume XXII, number LXXXVIII, page 222:
    The bacteriæ were seen moving about, but the characteristic smell of putridity was absent.
kinds of bacterium
  • 2004, Sanjiv N. Amin, “Mycobacterial diseases”, in Oxford Textbook of Rheumatology[4], →ISBN, page 639:
    The greatest limitation is the fact that most protein components in this substance are shared between mycobacterial species or with unrelated bacteriae.
German
  • 1876, Allgemeine homöopathische Zeitung, page 56:
    Mitchell of Newburgh, Swaney of Mass., Wilson of Conn., Brown of New York gaben dann lange, ich will nicht sagen, langweilige Dissertationen über Micrococci, Bacteriae und wie das Geschmeiss alles heisst, und doch blieb es unentschieden, ob diese Pilze [?] die Ursache oder die Folgen der Krankheit sind.

English citations of bacterias

kinds of bacterium
  • 2002, A.C. Panchdhari, Water Supply and Sanitary Installations[5], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 177:
    Anaerobic bacteria function in the absence of oxygen, where as aerobic bacteria require sunlight and also oxygen. Both these bacterias are capable of breaking down the organic matter []
  • 2005 December 2, Anne Krueger, “County lifts boil order for Live Oak Springs”, in San Diego Union-Tribune[6]:
    Many coliform bacterias are not harmful, but they can be used to gauge contamination of a water system. [] The test results from the independent labs showed the water was free of bacteria, while almost all of the county test results showed bacteria in the water.