Polybacterial
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Polybacterial is an adjective meaning Relating to more than one kind of bacterium.
Meaning
Relating to more than one kind of bacterium.
Example Sentences
To investigate how a polybacterial microbiome infection influences atherosclerotic plaque progression, we infected the oral cavity of ApoE null mice with a polybacterial consortium of 4 well-characterized periodontal pathogens, Porphyromonas gingivalis, Treponema denticola, Tannerealla forsythia and Fusobacterium nucleatum, that have been identified in human atherosclerotic plaque by DNA screening.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include multimicrobial, polymicrobial, polytrophic, multiorganism, polygenomic, heterobiotic.
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