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polybacterial

polybacterial adjective: relating to more than one kind of bacterium.

Adjective

polybacterial (not comparable)

  1. Relating to more than one kind of bacterium.
    • 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...2015 December 1, “Polymicrobial Oral Infection with Four Periodontal Bacteria Orchestrates a Distinct Inflammatory Response and Atherosclerosis in ApoE null Mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of polybacterial

From poly- + bacterial.

Questions about polybacterial

What does polybacterial mean?
Polybacterial means relating to more than one kind of bacterium.
What part of speech is polybacterial?
Polybacterial is an adjective.

Words near polybacterial in the dictionary

  1. polyazole
  2. polyazoles
  3. polyazos
  4. polyazulene
  5. polybacillary
  6. polybacterial
  7. polybag
  8. polybagged
  9. polybagging
  10. polybags
  11. polyball

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