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Difference Between Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative Bacillus

There are many ways of classifying bacteria. One method is based on the cell membrane. In 1884, a bacteriologist named Christian Gram created a test that could determine if a bacterium had a thick, ...
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Uncommonly Encountered, Motile, Anaerobic Gram-Negative Bacilli Associated with Infection

Motile, anaerobic gram-negative bacilli belonging to the genera Butyrivibrio, Succinimonas, Succinivibrio, Anaerovibrio, Wolinella, Campylobacter, Desulfovibrio, Selenomonas, and Anaerobiospirillum ...
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Nosocomial Infections Due to Gram-Negative Bacilli in Compromised Hosts: Considerations for Prevention and Therapy

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Compromised patients are predisposed to the acquisition of the more resistant gram-negative bacilli from the hospital environment. In ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Changing Pharyngeal Bacterial Flora of Hospitalized Patients — Emergence of Gram-Negative Bacilli

The prevalence of gram-negative bacilli among the oropharyngeal bacterial flora was low in physiologically normal subjects despite hospital exposure but rose markedly in patients with illnesses of ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Clinical and Bacteriologic Studies of the Effect of Massive Doses of Penicillin G on Infections Caused by Gram-Negative Bacilli

Nine species (240 strains) of gram-negative bacilli were studied; 221 were freshly isolated from the urinary and intestinal tracts, wounds and abscesses. Thirteen strains of salmonella and 6 of ...