Which bacterium is a major cause of staphylococcal food poisoning through preformed toxins?
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Staphylococcus aureus
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Which bacterium is a major cause of staphylococcal food poisoning through preformed toxins?
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Staphylococcus aureus
Which bacterium is the best-known cause of antibiotic-associated pseudomembranous colitis?
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Clostridioides difficile
Which bacterium attacks and digests other bacteria from inside their cells?
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Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus
Which bacterium is the most abundant photosynthetic organism in the oceans?
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Prochlorococcus
Which bacterium causes syphilis, the sexually transmitted infection described by its distinctive stages?
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Treponema pallidum
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Which bacterium is the best-known cause of antibiotic-associated pseudomembranous colitis?
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Clostridioides difficile
Which bacterium attacks and digests other bacteria from inside their cells?
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Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus
Which bacterium is the most abundant photosynthetic organism in the oceans?
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Prochlorococcus
Which bacterium causes syphilis, the sexually transmitted infection described by its distinctive stages?
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Treponema pallidum
Which bacterium causes epidemic typhus, historically spread by the human body louse?
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Rickettsia prowazekii
Which bacterium fixes nitrogen in root nodules of legumes such as peas and clover?
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Rhizobium leguminosarum
Which bacterium causes meningococcal meningitis and can also cause bloodstream infections?
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Neisseria meningitidis
Which bacterium causes crown gall disease in plants and transfers DNA into plant cells?
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Agrobacterium tumefaciens
Which bacterium causes green discoloration and a fruity odor in some infected wounds?
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Which bacterium produces the enzyme used in PCR, a technique that amplifies DNA?
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Thermus aquaticus
Which bacterium is used to produce Swiss-type cheese flavor and its characteristic holes?
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Propionibacterium freudenreichii