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vibrio

/vib-ree-oh/US // ˈvɪb riˌoʊ //UK // (ˈvɪbrɪˌəʊ) //

弧菌,弧菌素,弧菌病,弧菌病人

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural vib·ri·os.Bacteriology.

    • : any of several comma- or S-shaped bacteria of the genus Vibrio, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans and other animals.

Examples

  • During the 1892 cholera epidemic in France, he drank Cholera vibrio, a bacteria that causes the disease.

  • Some scientists dispute that an infection causes bleaching because they failed to isolate those vibrio bacteria from bleached coral.

  • He has studied the Vibrio genus of bacteria for more than 40 years and still finds it eminently fascinating.

  • A crabber is Florida's latest casualty of the flesh-eating bacteria Vibrio Vulnificus.

  • Test the vibrio isolated against the serum of an animal immunised to the Vibrio choleræ for agglutination.

  • Among the animal parasites may be mentioned the weevil, vibrio tritici, which feeds upon the starch cells of the grain.

  • The longitudinal type characterises such genera as Vibrio, Filaria, Gordius, and all the annulate animals.

  • Vibrio spirillum is excessively minute, colourless, and found in decomposing vegetable mixtures.

  • Fortunately the patient recovered, and this terrifying experiment proved indisputably the specificity of the cholera vibrio.