the importance of identifying unknown bacteria?
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Knowing how a bacteria works and how it is structured means knowing how it can affect humans.  For example, if a bacteria can make a person ill, but it has something called a beta-lactam ring in its cell wall, that is good to know because a drug that works on the beta-lactam ring is able to kill the bacteria.\n\nUnknown bacteria may also have clinical uses.  Many pharmaceutical drugs are based on products made by organisms.  Penicillins (which may work in the above-described scenario) is actually isolated from a fungus.  Digitalis and digoxin, cardiac drugs, come from the foxglove plant.  It is very possible that this unidentified bacteria may have something it produces that would lead to a medical breakthrough.
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When you have "food poisoning" it is important to identify\nthe bacteria that caused the problem, reason being, you \ncan severely pass this organism to another person and\nget them very sick, which is the case of some Hepatitis A\ncases, salmonella, shigella and others...These diseases can be transmitted from person to person.\nWhenever this happens, you are a Public Health hazard and\nby state regulations, your case, if positive, must be reported\nto the Health Dept. authorities...\nDoctors frequently insert a long Q-tip to obtain a sample from\nyour rectum and send it to the lab to identify the organism.\nThat's how the culture is taken.\nIn my opinion, you were seen by a good doctor who suspected\nthat you were been affected by a gastroenteritis condition\nand he needed to take that culture.\nSo to clear any misunderstanding on the subject matter,\nhe wasn't been fresh, or inappropriate by performing this test,\nhe was doing what a doctor is supposed to be doing\nwhen a patient shows up in ER with bloody diarrhea...\nThe bloody diarrhea comes from the organism irritating\nyour bowels.......
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here are lists and pictures\n\nhttp://www.buddycom.com/bacteria/gpc.html
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they have a website...or are you looking to buy one? try trying in the name of the bacterium into a search engine. most college's have at least one.
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an archaebacteria is the classification name of bacteri that have no nucleus and are also found in places whare normal bacteria are not found
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If you are culturing someone who is sick - say someone who has pneumonia - then chances are the colonies that are all alike and have the greatest number on the plate are the ones causing the problem.  You run biochemical tests on them and determine if they are known pathogens.  Stuff gets complicated when you have someone with a bad immune system and the bacteria that are normally good are actually the bad ones.
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don't worry is just a Streptococcus bacteria, not a big deal\n\n:> peace\n.
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To the best of my knowledge any Bacteria such as mentioned above can not survive in the air. They die very quickly once exposed to the environment.
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A definitive diagnosis requires demonstration or isolation of the organisms responsible for the infection. Direct Gram stain may be helpful because of the frequently unique morphology of Gram-negative anaerobic bacilli. In general, these organisms are pale staining and they may stain erratically. Fusobacterium cells may exhibit classic tapered ends and filamentous forms, with or without swollen areas and large round bodies. Direct gas-liquid chromatography of clinical specimens occasionally provides important clues to the presence of certain Gram-negative anaerobic bacilli. A large amount of butyric acid in the absence of isobutyric or isovaleric acid indicates the presence of Fusobacterium. The presence of succinic acid and only Gram-negative rods seen on Gram stain, or of both succinic and isobutyric acid in the specimen, indicates that Bacteroides is present. Both direct and indirect fluorescent antibody techniques may be useful for rapid detection of Bacteroides, Prevotella, and Fusobacterium in clinical material.
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http://www.microbesonline.org/operons/gnc205922.html
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there are things like flash drives, antimicrobial susceptibility testing kits by this name on te internet, you want to be a little more specific next time you ask this question, good luck
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amoeba\nand i think cynobacteria \neuglena might be not, but im not sure
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USE DIFFERENT STAINING FOR BACTERIA EX. GRAM STAINING. LOOK UP DIFFERENT BACTERIA STAINING
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If you mean a round, whitish colony like you see in petri dishes, it's because they require moisture, salts, and nutrition to divide rapidly and maintain that kind of population.  You *will* find colonies of bacteria anywhere that those conditions apply, such as in the mouth, in decomposing animal and plant matter, in stagnant ponds, etc.  There are small, microscopic, colonies and single bacteria everywhere, waiting to exploit that situation.
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Uhhh.... isn't bacteria a single-cell organism?\nPlease be more specific.
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Well the size of the gene wont help us much to identify your PCR product. It all depends where your primers are located. You can get the rough sequence at the ncbi's website and align you primers with it so you know the size of your amplicon.
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deoxyribonucleic acid-but you dont really need to know that