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  • noun Plural form of clostridium.

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  • noun spindle-shaped bacterial cell especially one swollen at the center by an endospore

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Examples

  • The caecum in particular, is favourable for the growth of anaerobes such as clostridia and bacteroides.

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  • The caecum in particular, is favourable for the growth of anaerobes such as clostridia and bacteroides.

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  • Proteolytic bacteria such as clostridia, which are part of the normal gut flora, buy generic viagra toxic substances including phenols, indols and ammonia from the digestion of proteins.

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  • We have now shown that genetically engineered clostridia can successfully treat tumors in animals.

    Bacteria Successful in Cancer Treatment | Impact Lab 2007

  • This is supported by observations that the host animal can tolerate populations less than 107 clostridia or enterobacteria per gram of intestinal contents.

    Protexin - Probiotics. Pets need them, too! Thatsnews 2008

  • This is supported by observations that the host animal can tolerate populations less than 107 clostridia or enterobacteria per gram of intestinal contents.

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  • Not only do we know someone who DIED after a routine surgery due to a clostridia difficile infection, almost everyone we know gets a staph infection.

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  • Other clostridia have the capability to ferment sugars to produce ethanol, butanol, isopropanol, acetic acid, acetone, and similar products, and perhaps the genes responsible for these properties can be incorporated into organisms that can produce alcohols directly from cellulose.

    3 Ethanol Production 1983

  • While organisms used for ethanol production can utilize only the C6 sugars, clostridia can convert both C5 and C6 sugars.

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  • Tulane University scientists discovered a strain of clostridia bacteria, dubbed 'TU-103,' that can devour old newspapers to produce butanol, a substitute for gasoline.

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