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Gram Positive Bacteria - Articles
Gram Negative Bacteria, PBL, and Career Development Seminar
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CCLCM Student ..
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Thu 23 Oct 2008 2:04pm
Today's seminar was just as hectic and crazy as Monday's was. The main difference is that we went through all of the Gram-negative bacteria at lightning speed. If you don't know much about bacteria, the Gram stain is used to distinguish two of the main classes of them. Gram-positive bacteria have thick cell walls and stain purple (left side
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Bad Bacteria & Healthy Bacteria
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Dr. Ellie Phillips
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Sat 30 Jan 2010 12:00am
Dear Dr. Ellie:
I assume it's not necessary to brush teeth after every meal once the bad bacteria have been crowded out by the healthy ones and have taken residence... is of course a perfect ending to a meal - so brushing is not needed.
Plaque bacteria take 12 hours to grow on teeth - so brushing every 12 hours is enough.
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Bad Bacteria & Healthy Bacteria
by
Dr. Ellie Phillips
Posted
Sat 30 Jan 2010 8:00am
Dear Dr. Ellie:
I assume it's not necessary to brush teeth after every meal once the bad bacteria have been crowded out by the healthy ones and have taken residence... is of course a perfect ending to a meal - so brushing is not needed.
Plaque bacteria take 12 hours to grow on teeth - so brushing every 12 hours is enough.
More than this may do more
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Bacteria-Free Mice
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Seth Roberts ..
Posted
Thu 06 Aug 2009 10:05pm
Bacteria-free mice have malfunctioning digestive systems and immune systems. Sarkis Mazmanian, an assistant professor at Caltech, has found that as little as one bacterial... of irritable bowel syndrome.
So far, so good: More evidence that we need bacteria for our digestive and immune systems to work properly. But then things get murky:
The Human
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