Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

Definition: Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

Noun

1. Cause of tuberculosis.

Specialty Definition: Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

Domain	Definition
Health	A species of gram-positive, aerobic bacteria that produces tuberculosis in man, other primates, dogs, and some animals which have contact with man. Growth tends to be in serpentine, cordlike masses in which the bacilli show a parallel orientation. (references)
Medicine	A bacterium belonging to the genus Mycobacterium:it is the main cause of human tuberculosis but can also affect animals. Source: European Union. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the bacteria that causes most cases of tuberculosis. Its genome has been sequenced.

It is a Gram-positive aerobic bacterium that divides every 16-20 hours. This is extremely slow compared to other bacteria which tend to have division times measured in minutes (for example, E. coli can divide roughly every 20 minutes). It is a small rod-like bacillus which can withstand weak disinfectants and can survive in a dry state for weeks but can only grow within a host organism.

MTB is identified microscopically by its staining characteristics: it retains certain stains after being treated with acidic solution, and is thus classified as an "acid-fast bacillus" or "AFB". In the most common staining technique, the Ziehl-Neelsen stain, AFB are stained a bright red which stands out clearly against a blue background. Acid-fast bacilli can also be visualized by fluorescent microscopy, and by auramine-rhodamine stain.

External Links

http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/M_tuberculosis/

Crosswords: Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

Specialty definitions using "Mycobacterium tuberculosis": Cord Factors ♦ Empyema, Tuberculous ♦ Koch OT, Koch's old tuberculin, Koch's OT ♦ old tuberculin ♦ tuberculostatic. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Mycobacterium Tuberculosis" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (Bacillus Phages, comma bacillus, dderleins bacillus, Mycobacterium haemophilum, Mycobacterium kansasii, Mycobacterium leprae, Mycobacterium lepraemurium, Mycobacterium marinum, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Mycobacterium ulcerans, Mycobacterium xenopi, tubercle bacillus), Portuguese (Mycobacterium tuberculosis).

Commercial Usage: Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

Domain	Title
Books	Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Protocols (Methods in Molecular Medicine, 54) (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

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	Acid-fast Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacillus is visible within granuloma. Credit: CDC.		Histopathology of chronic inflammatory reaction to Schistosoma mansoni antigen in monkey infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Skin. Credit: CDC.
	Though a rare circumstance, Mycobacterium tuberculosis mother-to-child transmission can take place through the blood from different regions of the mother's body, or originating from lesions within the placenta as is the case here. Credit: CDC.		Text Slide Example, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Credit: CDC.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Mycobacterium tuberculosis. (references)
		Some 2 billion people � one-third of the world's population � are infected with the TB organism, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. (references)
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

Modern Translation: Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

Language		Translations for "Mycobacterium tuberculosis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		mycobacterium tuberculosis. (various references)

Dutch		tuberkelbakterie, tuberkelbacterie. (various references)

Finnish		Mycobacterium tuberculosis. (various references)

French		mycobacterium tuberculosis. (various references)

German		Mycobacterium tuberculosis. (various references)

Greek		MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS. (various references)

Italian		Mycobacterium tuberculosis. (various references)

Pig Latin		ycobacteriummay uberculosistay

Portuguese		mycobacterium tuberculosis. (various references)

Spanish		mycobacterium tuberculosis. (various references)

Swedish		Mycobacterium tuberculosis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Ancestral Language Translations: Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

Alternative Orthography: Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 79 63 6F 62 61 63 74 65 72 69 75 6D 54 75 62 65 72 63 75 6C 6F 73 69 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0079 0063 006F 0062 0061 0063 0074 0065 0072 0069 0075 006D 0054 0075 0062 0065 0072 0063 0075 006C 006F 0073 0069 0073

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day
mycobacterium tuberculosis	92
image mycobacterium tuberculosis	3
mycobacterium tuberculosis picture	2
mycobacterium tuberculosis tuberculosis	2
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Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Mycobacterium tuberculosis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

Definition: Mycobacterium Tuberculosis