Look up: Mycobacterium

1. Mycobacterium
   a type of slow-growing bacterium; resistant to the body's defence mechanisms and are responsible for diseases such as tuberculosis and leprosy
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2. Mycobacterium
   Mycobacterium: A large family of bacteria that have unusually waxy cell walls that are resistant to digestion. The mycobacteria includes: Mycobacterium avium -- which causes tuberculosis in birds and immunodeficient people; Mycobacterium leprae -- which causes leprosy; Mycobacterium marinum -- which causes swimming pool granuloma; Mycobacterium tub …
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3. mycobacterium
   <microbiology> An organism of the genus Mycobacterium. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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4. Mycobacterium
   `Mycobacterium` is a genus of Actinobacteria, given its own family, the Mycobacteriaceae. The genus includes pathogens known to cause serious diseases in mammals, including tuberculosis and leprosy. The Latin prefix ``myco—`` means both `fungus` and `wax`; its use here relates to the `waxy` compounds in the cell wall.
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5. Mycobacterium
   `Mycobacterium` is a genus of Actinobacteria, given its own family, the Mycobacteriaceae. The genus includes pathogens known to cause serious diseases in mammals, including tuberculosis and leprosy. The Latin prefix ``myco—`` means both `fungus` and `wax`; its use here relates to the `waxy` compounds in the cell wall.
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6. Mycobacterium
   `Mycobacterium` is a genus of Actinobacteria, given its own family, the Mycobacteriaceae. The genus includes pathogens known to cause serious diseases in mammals, including tuberculosis and leprosy. The Latin prefix ``myco—`` means both `fungus` and `wax`; its use here relates to the `waxy` compounds in the cell wall.
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7. Mycobacterium
   (mi″ko-bak-tēr´e-әm) a genus of gram-positive, aerobic, acid-fast bacteria with a rod shape. Many species cause disease: M. tuberculo´sis causes tuberculosis; M. le´prae causes leprosy; M. a´vium causes disease in birds and pigs and lung disease in humans; M. bo´vis causes disease in cattle and occasionally t...
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8. mycobacterium
   (mi″ko-bak-tēr´e-әm) an individual bacterium of the genus Mycobacterium. nontuberculous mycobacteria mycobacteria other than M. tuberculosis or M. bovis, consisting of nonpathogens and pathogens causing opportunistic infections in immunocompromised patients and infections...
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9. Mycobacterium
   genus of rod-shaped bacteria of the family Mycobacteriaceae (order Actinomycetales), the most important species of which, M. tuberculosis and M. ...
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10. mycobacterium
    an organism of the genus Mycobacterium.
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11. mycobacterium
    mycobacterium 1. A large family of bacteria that have unusually waxy cell walls that are resistant to digestion juices. 2. A rod-shaped Gram-positive aerobic bacterium that can form branching structures resembling filaments. Some diseases in humans are caused by mycobacteria; such as, tuberculosis and leprosy.
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12. Mycobacterium
    A genus of aerobic, nonmotile bacteria (family Mycobacteriaceae) containing Gram-positive, acid-fast, slender, straight or slightly curved rods; slender filaments occasionally occur, but branched forms rarely are produced. Parasitic and saprophytic species occur. A number of species are associated with infections in immunocompromised people, especi...
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