Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being a bacterium that retains the violet stain used in the Gram stain method.
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- adjective medicine that is
stained violet byGram's method
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Examples
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Also known as gram-negative bacteremia and gram-positive bacteremia, sepsis occurs when infectious agents like bacteria or fungi or products of infection like bacterial toxins enter the body, most often through a wound or incision.
Forever Young M.D. Nicholas Perricone 2010
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Zyvox is the leading branded antibiotic for serious gram-positive infections, and the only marketed antibiotic labeled for MRSA that is available in both intravenous and oral-dosage forms.
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MRSA is the most prevalent drug-resistant bacterium classified as gram-positive found in hospital and community settings.
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Such organisms are so named because they don't pick up the purplish dye used in the test to distinguish them from gram-positive bacteria.
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The researchers experiments additionally determined that hydramacin-1 kills a wide variety of bacteria – in both the gram-positive and gram-negative families.
New Protein Found in Freshwater Animal Offers Hope Against Bacterial Strains 2009
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Gram-positive bacteria, including gram-positive spore forms, are absent or rare in most tundra sites.
Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic 2009
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However, researchers on this project found that gram-positive bacteria also aid in stinky breath.
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New drugs are coming for complicated skin infections: daptomycin, oritavancin: antibiotics battle gram-positive pathogens.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: A new compound fights drug-resistant bacteria 2008
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IOW, why would you argue that the LUCA was not a gram-positive thermophilic bacteria, as Ciccarelli et al. suggest (please site why you think their conclusions are unjustified).
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IOW, why would you argue that the LUCA was not a gram-positive thermophilic bacteria, as Ciccarelli et al. suggest (please site why you think their conclusions are unjustified).
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