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Prevotella

(prev'ō-tel'ă),
Genus of gram-negative, nonmotile, non-spore-forming, obligately anaerobic, chemoorganotrophic, and pleomorphic rods; contains many species previously classified in the genus Bacteroides. P. melaninogenica is the type species.

Pre·vo·tel·la

(prev'ō-tel'ă)
Bacterial genus of gram-negative, nonmotile, non-spore-forming, obligately anaerobic, chemoorganotrophic, and pleomorphic rods; includes many species previously classified in the genus Bacteroides.

Pre·vo·tel·la

(prev'ō-tel'ă)
Bacterial genus of gram-negative, nonmotile, non-spore-forming, obligately anaerobic, chemoorganotrophic, and pleomorphic rods; includes many species previously classified in the genus Bacteroides.

Prevotella

a genus of gram negative anaerobic bacteria previously grouped in the genus Bacteroides. Involved in periodontal disease and a cause of dog and cat bite wound infections.
Prevotella melaninogenica
isolated from footrot and foot abscesses of cattle. Previously called Bacteroides melaninogenicus.
Prevotella ruminicola
one of the predominant anaerobic gram negative bacterial species in ruminal contents.
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Bacteria of the genera Bacteroides, Prevotella, Ruminobacter, Fibrobacter, Methanobrevibacter, Methanomicrobium and Clostridium (spores) are rod-shaped; Butyrovibrio, Selenomonas and Lachnospira are curved rod bacteria; cocci indicate the presence of Ruminococcus, Streptococcus and Megasphaera.
Bacterial diversity in bovine rumen by metagenomic 16S rDNA sequencing and scanning electron microscopy/Diversidade bacteriana em rumen bovino por analise de sequencias do 16S rDNA metagenomico e microscopia eletronica de varredura
Early studies using culture-dependent assays concluded that oral squamous cell carcinomas (compared to normal tissues with the same patient) have a significantly increased abundance of both aerobic and anaerobic bacteria with in creases in VeilloneNa, Fusobacterium, Prevotella, Porphyromonas, Actinomyces and Clostridium (anaerobes), and Haemophilus, Enterobacteriaceae and Streptococcus species (aerobes).
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Determinacion de la susceptibilidad antibiotica in vitro de bacterias subgingivales en caninos con enfermedad periodontal moderada a severa
Group A beta-hemolytic streptococci pigmented Prevotella and Porphyromonas and Fusobacterium spp.
Bacteriological profile in atopic dermatitis: comparison between normal and lesional skin
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Inactivation of gram-negative bacteria by low-pressure RF remote plasma excited in [N.sub.2]-[O.sub.2] mixture and [SF.sub.6] gases
It 's necessary to use metronidazole in addition to doxycycline and a cephalosporin to cover all the bacteria species associated with pelvic inflammatory disease, according one study "The coadministration of a cephalosporin with doxycycline for women with PID provides coverage for all anaerobic pathogens except Prevotella species.
Metronidazole needed for complete PID coverage
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The mechanism for the conversion of carnitine to TMAO proposed by the researchers was the overgrowth of certain species of bacteria in the gut such as Prevotella.
Revisiting the Diet-Heart hypothesis
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