Gram-Negative Aerobic Bacteria
"Gram-Negative Aerobic Bacteria" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A large group of aerobic bacteria which show up as pink (negative) when treated by the gram-staining method. This is because the cell walls of gram-negative bacteria are low in peptidoglycan and thus have low affinity for violet stain and high affinity for the pink dye safranine.
| Descriptor ID |
D006088
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B03.440.400
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Gram-Negative Aerobic Bacteria" by people in Profiles.
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Microbial cause of ICU-acquired pneumonia: hospital-acquired pneumonia versus ventilator-associated pneumonia. Curr Opin Crit Care. 2018 10; 24(5):332-338.