Biomaterial Database

Nanobacteria: facts or fancies? 2007

Pasquale Urbano, and Francesco Urbano

Medical School of the University of Florence, Florence, Italy. pasquale.urbano@unifi.it

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D001031	Apatites	A group of phosphate minerals that includes ten mineral species and has the general formula X5(YO4)3Z, where X is usually calcium or lead, Y is phosphorus or arsenic, and Z is chlorine, fluorine, or OH-. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)	Apatite
D001419	Bacteria	One of the three domains of life (the others being Eukarya and ARCHAEA), also called Eubacteria. They are unicellular prokaryotic microorganisms which generally possess rigid cell walls, multiply by cell division, and exhibit three principal forms: round or coccal, rodlike or bacillary, and spiral or spirochetal. Bacteria can be classified by their response to OXYGEN: aerobic, anaerobic, or facultatively anaerobic; by the mode by which they obtain their energy: chemotrophy (via chemical reaction) or PHOTOTROPHY (via light reaction); for chemotrophs by their source of chemical energy: CHEMOLITHOTROPHY (from inorganic compounds) or chemoorganotrophy (from organic compounds); and by their source for CARBON; NITROGEN; etc.; HETEROTROPHY (from organic sources) or AUTOTROPHY (from CARBON DIOXIDE). They can also be classified by whether or not they stain (based on the structure of their CELL WALLS) with CRYSTAL VIOLET dye: gram-negative or gram-positive.	Eubacteria
D001424	Bacterial Infections	Infections by bacteria, general or unspecified.	Bacterial Disease,Bacterial Infection,Infection, Bacterial,Infections, Bacterial,Bacterial Diseases
D034462	Dissent and Disputes	Differences of opinion or disagreements that may arise, for example, between health professionals and patients or their families, or against a political regime.	Dispute,Dissent And Dispute,Disputes,Dissent,Political Dissent,Professional-Family Disagreement,Professional-Patient Disagreement,And Dispute, Dissent,And Disputes, Dissent,Disagreement, Professional-Family,Disagreement, Professional-Patient,Disagreements, Professional-Family,Disagreements, Professional-Patient,Dispute, Dissent And,Disputes and Dissent,Disputes, Dissent And,Dissent, Political,Professional Family Disagreement,Professional Patient Disagreement,Professional-Family Disagreements,Professional-Patient Disagreements