Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or being a bacterium that retains the violet stain used in Gram's method.
Wiktionary
- adj. medicine that is stained violet by Gram's method
Examples
“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.”
The Wall Street Journal: FDA Ties Tylenol Recall to Contamination
“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.”
The Wall Street Journal: Trius Closes Flat After Cutting IPO Price
“MRSA is the most prevalent drug-resistant bacterium classified as gram-positive found in hospital and community settings.”
The Wall Street Journal: Trius Closes Flat After Cutting IPO Price
“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.”
“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
“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
“However, researchers on this project found that gram-positive bacteria also aid in stinky breath.”
“New drugs are coming for complicated skin infections: daptomycin, oritavancin: antibiotics battle gram-positive pathogens.”
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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).”
“This particular presentation of the data suggests that the last universal common ancestor was a gram-positive thermophilic bacteria.”
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