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Endospores lay dormant until conditions are such that they can re-activate the cell.
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Why is it necessary to perform endospore stain to identify clostridium difficile in health care settings?
why is it necessary to perform an endospore stain to identify clostridium in health care settings
What is a Pathogenic endospore forming bacteria that is difficult to kill?
Bacillus cereus, Clostridium tetani
Does the bacteria tetanus need a host to survive?
No. The bacterium Clostridium tetani forms an endospore and can survive for long periods of time. When the endospore is introduced into a favorable environment it begins to metabolize.
What are the three diseases caused by organisms that form endospores?
Bacterial Spores are a bacterial defensive strategy to survive in harsh environments. Several types of bacteria are capable of using this mechanism. The spores themselves do not cause the disease, they must be first be reactivated to functional bacteria in the proper environment. Bascillis anthasis or more commonly know as anthrax is the most well know due to the potential terrorist threat. The more prevalent bacteria which causes disease is clostridium difficile which reactivates in the colon causing a diarrhea illness usually after someone takes antibiotics which kill off the normal colon bacteria. Up to 5-10% of people carry this in their colon, but this becomes much higher amongst hospitalized patients. There are other spore forming bacteria, but these are not commonly associated with disease.
What is the difference between clostridium gas gangrene and clostridium perfringens?
clostridium gas gangrene is an illness due to Clostridium clostridium perfringens is a bacteria and can be at the origin of gas gangrene
What are 3 organisms of eubacteria?
Clostridium perfringens, Clostridium botulinum, and Clostridium tetani.
What is the scientific name for clostridium tetani?
The scientific name for Clostridium tetani is Clostridium tetani.
What are examples or eubacteria?
Clostridium tetani, Clostridium botulinum, Clostridium perfringens, Bacillus antracis, Bacillus pneumoniae, Esherischia coli......
What is the shape of Clostridium?
Clostridium are rod shaped, or 'cocci'
Type of spore that can remain dormant until favorable conditions for growth arise?
A type of spore that can remain dominant until favorable conditions for growth arise is called an endospore. It refers to an asexual spore that develops inside some bacterial cells.
Why discovery of endospore was important in microbilogy?
the discovery of endospore allow the scientist to set a best temperature for stelization, and it have alerted them in the synthesis of different medicine, to what kind of medicine can pernatrate the endospore of a specific microorganism
What is the location of clostridium tetani?
Clostridium tetani is found in the soil.
