Dictionary of microbiology
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The Dictionary of Microbiology is a comprehensive lexicon that covers a wide array of terms pertinent to the field of microbiology, the study of microscopic organisms. These terms are crucial for students, researchers, and professionals working in microbiology and related fields.
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- Aseptic technique - A set of practices used to prevent contamination from pathogens.
- Agar plate - A petri dish filled with agar used to culture microorganisms.
B[edit | edit source]
- Biofilm - A complex aggregation of microorganisms marked by the excretion of a protective and adhesive matrix.
- Bacteriophage - A virus that infects and replicates within bacteria.
C[edit | edit source]
- Culture medium - A substance that provides the necessary nutrients for microorganisms to grow.
- Colony-forming unit - A unit used to estimate the number of viable bacteria or fungal cells in a sample.
D[edit | edit source]
- Differential stain - A staining process that allows microscopists to distinguish different types of microorganisms.
- DNA sequencing - The process of determining the nucleotide sequence of a DNA molecule.
E[edit | edit source]
- Endospore - A dormant, tough, and non-reproductive structure produced by certain bacteria.
- Eukaryote - Organisms whose cells have a nucleus enclosed within a nuclear envelope.
F[edit | edit source]
- Fermentation - A metabolic process that converts sugar to acids, gases, or alcohol in the absence of oxygen.
- Fomite - Any inanimate object that, when contaminated with a viable pathogen, can transfer disease.
G[edit | edit source]
- Gram stain - A method of staining used to differentiate bacterial species into two large groups (Gram-positive and Gram-negative).
- Growth curve - A graphical representation of the growth of a culture of microorganisms.
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- Host (biology) - An organism that harbors a virus or parasite, or supports the survival of a commensal organism.
- Hybridization (molecular biology) - The process of forming a double-stranded DNA molecule between a single-stranded DNA probe and a single-stranded target DNA.
I[edit | edit source]
- Immunology - The branch of medicine and biology concerned with immunity.
- Inoculation - The introduction of microorganisms or viruses into a growth medium or an organism.
J[edit | edit source]
- Joule (unit) - A derived unit of energy in the International System of Units.
K[edit | edit source]
- Koch's postulates - A series of criteria used to establish that a microorganism causes a disease.
- Kilobase pair (kbp) - A unit of measurement in molecular biology used for the length of DNA strands.
L[edit | edit source]
- Lysis - The disintegration of a cell by rupture of the cell wall or membrane.
- Lysogeny - A process where the genome of a virus integrates into the host cell's DNA and is replicated together with it.
M[edit | edit source]
- Microbiota - The assemblage of microorganisms present in a defined environment.
- Mutagenesis - The process by which the genetic information of an organism is changed, resulting in a mutation.
N[edit | edit source]
- Nucleoid - The irregularly-shaped section of a prokaryotic cell where genetic material is located.
- Nitrogen fixation - The process by which nitrogen in the Earth's atmosphere is converted into ammonia (NH3) or related nitrogenous compounds in soil.
O[edit | edit source]
- Osmosis - The spontaneous net movement of solvent molecules through a selectively permeable membrane into a region of higher solute concentration.
- Obligate aerobe - An organism that requires oxygen to grow.
P[edit | edit source]
- Pathogen - An organism that causes disease.
- Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) - A method widely used to rapidly make millions to billions of copies of a specific DNA sample.
Q[edit | edit source]
- Quorum sensing - A system of stimuli and response correlated to population density.
R[edit | edit source]
- Ribosome - A complex molecular machine found within all living cells, which serves as the site of biological protein synthesis (translation).
- Recombinant DNA - DNA that has been formed artificially by combining constituents from different organisms.
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- Symbiosis - A close and long-term biological interaction between two different biological organisms.
- Streaking (microbiology) - A method used to isolate a pure strain from a single species of microorganism.
T[edit | edit source]
- Transformation (genetics) - The genetic alteration of a cell resulting from the direct uptake and incorporation of exogenous genetic material.
- Transduction (genetics) - The process by which DNA is transferred from one bacterium to another by a virus.
U[edit | edit source]
- Ubiquitin - A small regulatory protein that has been found in almost all tissues of eukaryotic organisms.
- Ultrastructure - The detailed structure of a biological entity.
V[edit | edit source]
- Vector (molecular biology) - An organism that does not cause disease itself but which spreads infection by conveying pathogens from one host to another.
- Virology - The study of viruses – submicroscopic, parasitic particles of genetic material contained in a protein coat.
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- Winogradsky column - A simple device for culturing a large diversity of microorganisms.
- Waste treatment - The process of converting wastewater into an effluent that can be either returned to the water cycle with minimal environmental issues or reused.
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- Xenobiology - A subfield of synthetic biology, the area of research concerns biological systems and living organisms that are not found in nature.
- Xanthophyll - A yellow pigment found in many plants and bacteria, important in the xanthophyll cycle.
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- Yeast - Eukaryotic, single-celled microorganisms classified as members of the fungus kingdom.
- YOP proteins - A family of proteins secreted by some strains of bacteria, including those responsible for the plague.
Z[edit | edit source]
- Zoonosis - An infectious disease caused by a pathogen (an infectious agent, such as a bacterium, virus, parasite or prion) that has jumped from a non-human animal to a human.
- Zymogen - An inactive precursor of an enzyme, which requires a biochemical change for it to become an active enzyme.
List of microbiology articles[edit | edit source]
- 'The All-Species Living Tree' Project
- A1 broth
- ACAM2000
- AHL-1 cells
- ATCC (company)
- ATP test
- Acanthocephaliasis
- Acaryochloris marina
- Accessory gene regulator
- Acidogenesis
- Acidophile (histology)
- Actinomycetia
- Addiction module
- Adelchi Negri
- Adenitis
- Aerobic denitrification
- Aerobic organism
- Aerobiology
- Aerotolerant anaerobe
- Affinity capture
- Agar plate
- Agricultural microbiology
- Air displacement pipette
- Airing
- Akshamsaddin
- Alejandro Cravioto
- Alexidine
- Alginite
- Alice C. Evans Award
- Alkaline lysis
- Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics
- American Phytopathological Society
- American Society for Microbiology
- American Society of Parasitologists
- AmpliPHOX
- Ana Barati
- Anaerobic organism
- Anaeromyces robustus
- Analytical profile index
- Anammox
- Anammox for wastewater treatment
- Animal trypanosomiasis
- Ann M. Hardy
- Anoigmaichnus
- Antibiotic sensitivity testing
- Antigenic drift
- Antigenic escape
- Antigenic shift
- Antimicrobial
- Antimicrobial chemotherapy
- Antimicrobial copper-alloy touch surfaces
- Antimicrobial polymer
- Antimicrobial properties of copper
- Antimicrobial surface
- Antimicrobials in aquaculture
- Anton blood group antigen
- Application of biofilms in industry
- Applied Microbiology International
- Aquaglyceroporins
- Archaeoparasitology
- Artificial digestion
- Arturo Zychlinsky
- Ascending cholangitis
- Asepsis
- Asphodelin A
- Assessment on COVID-19 Origins
- Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada
- Astro microbiology
- Asymptomatic carrier
- Atelocyanobacterium thalassa
- Atromentin
- Attenuated vaccine
- Atypical bacteria
- Auramine–rhodamine stain
- Austrocortilutein
- Austrocortirubin
- Autochaperone
- Autoclave tape
- Autodisplay
- Autogenous vaccines
- Autoinoculation
- Autotroph
- Auxanography
- Avoidance reaction
- Axenic
- Azerizin
- B type inclusion
- BAF agar
- BAP1
- BCP-1 cells
- BIOPAN
- Baby hamster kidney cell
- BacillaFilla
- Bacillary band
- Bacteria
- Bacteria collective motion
- Bacterial adhesin
- Bacterial capsule
- Bacterial cell structure
- Bacterial conjugation
- Bacterial growth
- Bacterial lawn
- Bacterial morphological plasticity
- Bacterial motility
- Bacterial nanowires
- Bacterial oxidation
- Bacterial patterns
- Bacterial phylodynamics
- Bacterial secretion system
- Bacterial stress response
- Bacteriocinogen
- Bacteriological water analysis
- Bacteriologist
- Bacteriology
- Bacteriolysin
- Baculoviral IAP repeat-containing protein 2
- Baird-Parker agar
- Bangladesh Society of Microbiologists
- Barrier nursing
- Bating (leather)
- Belgian Co-ordinated Collections of Micro-organisms
- Benzyl alcohol
- Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology
- Berkefeld filter
- Bibliography of tuberculosis
- Bifidobacterium animalis
- Bill of health
- Bioactive agents
- Bioaugmentation
- Bioburden
- Bioclogging
- Biofilm
- Biofilm prevention
- Biogeophysics
- Biohybrid microswimmer
- Bioleaching
- Biological carbon fixation
- Biological indicator evaluation resistometer
- Biological oxidizer
- Biomagnetics
- Bioremediation of polychlorinated biphenyls
- Biosafety cabinet
- Biovar
- Birgit Nordbring-Hertz
- Bismuth sulfite agar
- Blood Falls
- Blood culture
- Blood-borne disease
- Boil-water advisory
- Borg (microbiology)
- Brain abscess
- Branched DNA assay
- Branches of microbiology
- Branching order of bacterial phyla (Cavalier-Smith, 2002)
- Branching order of bacterial phyla (Ciccarelli et al., 2006)
- Branching order of bacterial phyla (Genome Taxonomy Database, 2018)
- Branching order of bacterial phyla (Gupta, 2001)
- Branching order of bacterial phyla (Rappe and Giovanoni, 2003)
- Branching order of bacterial phyla (Woese, 1987)
- Breed method
- British Industrial Biological Research Association
- British Society for Parasitology
- British Society for Plant Pathology
- Britt Koskella
- Brocadia fulgida
- Buffered charcoal yeast extract agar
- Burrinjuckia
- C55-isoprenyl pyrophosphate
- CAMP test
- Cable bacteria
- Calponin 1
- Calponin 2
- Calponin 3, acidic
- Campylobacter
- Candidate phyla radiation
- Candidatus Brocadia anammoxidans
- Candidatus Pelagibacter communis
- Candidatus Scalindua
- Cap snatching
- Capsid
- Capsomere
- Carbadox
- Carbol fuchsin
- Carboxylate transporter
- Casamino acid
- Cat bite
- Catalina Cuellar-Gempeler
- Catheter lock solution
- Catheter-associated urinary tract infection
- Cell-based vaccine
- Cell-mediated immunity
- Cellular microbiology
- CendR
- Center for Biofilm Engineering
- Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education
- Cetacean microbiome
- Cetrimide agar
- Chamberland filter
- Changestat
- Chaperone-usher fimbriae
- Chemosynthesis
- Chemotroph
- Chemotype
- Chest photofluorography
- Chlorbisan
- Chocolate agar
- Chris Greening
- Chu 13
- Cidex
- Cinoxacin
- Circular chromosome
- Citrate test
- Climate change and infectious diseases
- Clonogenic assay
- Clostridium botulinum
- Clostridium scindens
- Co-option (biology)
- Coagulase
- Coinfection
- ColE1
- Coley's toxins
- Colleen Cavanaugh
- Collodion bag
- Colonial morphology
- Colonization resistance
- Colony (biology)
- Colony hybridization
- Colony-forming unit
- Commercially useful enzymes
- Common Cold Unit
- Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis
- Community fingerprinting
- Community-acquired pneumonia
- Companion Animal Parasite Council
- Conformational change
- Conservation biology of parasites
- Contact-dependent growth inhibition
- Contagious disease
- Copper usnate
- Cordon sanitaire (medicine)
- Corn steep liquor
- Corynebacterium striatum
- Cotton swab
- Cowpox
- Cragie tube
- Critical community size
- Cryogenic grinding
- Culture Collection (University of Gothenburg)
- Culture plate
- Culturomics (microbiology)
- Cupiennin
- CyTOF
- Cystine tryptic agar
- Czapek medium
- D-value (microbiology)
- DBNPA
- DNA vaccine
- DPVweb
- Decomposer
- Decoy cells
- Deep biosphere
- Defective interfering particle
- Dehydrocurvularin
- Denitrification
- Dental abscess
- Desmarella moniliformis
- Detritivore
- Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen
- Diagnostic microbiology
- Diazotroph
- Dichloroisocyanuric acid
- Dienes phenomenon
- Digital holographic microscopy
- Dip slide
- Discitis
- Discosphaera tubifer
- Discovery of disease-causing pathogens
- Discovery of penicillin
- Disease vector
- Disk diffusion test
- Dorothy Yeboah-Manu
- Double-disk diffusion test
- Drigalski spatula
- Duck embryo vaccine
- Durham tube
- EXPOSE
- Earth Microbiome Project
- Earwax
- Eaton's agar
- EcoHealth Alliance
- Ecotropism
- Eden growth model
- Effective (database)
- Egg hatch assay
- Eggs per gram
- Ehrlichia ruminantium
- Elaiomycin
- Electroporation
- Electrotroph
- Elek's test
- Eli Lilly and Company-Elanco Research Award
- Elisabeth Wollman
- Elsevier Biobase
- Embryonated
- Emergent virus
- Emerging infectious disease
- Emery's rule
- Emphysematous cystitis
- Encephalitis
- Endo agar
- Endogenous infection
- Endogenous viral element
- Endophyte
- Endospore
- Endospore staining
- Endosymbiont
- Endothelial cell tropism
- Enrichment culture
- Enterotype
- Epidemiology of syphilis
- Epiphytic bacteria
- Error threshold (evolution)
- Etest
- Ethyl lauroyl arginate
- European Academy of Microbiology
- European Collection of Authenticated Cell Cultures
- European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing
- European Culture Collections' Organisation
- European Federation of Parasitologists
- European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases
- European Working Group for Legionella Infections
- Eurybacteria
- Eve Billing
- Evolution of Infectious Disease
- Exoelectrogen
- Exogenous bacteria
- Exosporium
- Exotoxin
- Experimental Bacteriology
- Extra-Terrestrial Exposure Law
- Extracellular polymeric substance
- Extremophile
- EzTaxon Database
- F-plasmid
- FEMS Microbiology Ecology
- Facultative parasite
- Fahrenholz's rule
- Fastidious organism
- Fecal–oral route
- Fermentation theory
- Feulgen stain
- Fever of unknown origin
- Filamentation
- Fimbria (bacteriology)
- Five-second rule
- Flagellate
- Fleming Prize Lecture
- Floc (biofilm)
- Flora (microbiology)
- Fomite
- Food microbiology
- Formaldehyde releaser
- Freshers' flu
- Fumigatory box
- Fungal pneumonia
- Fungiculture
- GFAJ-1
- GISAID
- Gain-of-function research
- Garrod Lecture and Medal
- Gas-pak
- Gastroenteritis
- Gene nomenclature
- Gene transfer agent
- Genetic demixing
- Genitourinary amoebiasis
- Gens (behaviour)
- Gentamicin protection assay
- Geomicrobiology
- Geophilic
- Germ theory denialism
- Germ theory of disease
- German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology
- Giemsa stain
- Gijs Kuenen
- Global Leaders Group on Antimicrobial Resistance
- Global Viral
- Global Virus Network
- Global microbial identifier
- Globalization and disease
- Glossary of virology
- Glucose phosphate broth
- Gongylidia
- Gracilicutes
- Gram stain
- Gram-negative bacteria
- Gram-positive bacteria
- Griffith's experiment
- Group-specific antigen
- Growth curve (biology)
- Guard theory
- Gut microbiota
- Gut–brain axis
- H&E stain
- HELP assay
- HIS-selective medium
- HIV capsid inhibition
- HPA Culture Collections
- Haematozoa
- Halocin
- Halomonadaceae
- Halothiobacillaceae
- Halotolerance
- Haptista
- Hastigerinella
- Haverhill fever
- Helper dependent virus
- Helper virus
- Hemagglutination assay
- Hemolysis (microbiology)
- Heteroecious
- Heterophile antibody test
- Heterophile antigen
- Hexamethylenetetramine
- Hfr cell
- Hilary Koprowski Prize in Neurovirology
- History of penicillin
- Hok/sok system
- Holoendemic
- Hologenome theory of evolution
- Holtfreter's solution
- Hopanoids
- Horizontal Environmental Genetic Alteration Agents
- Horizontal gene transfer
- Horizontal transmission
- Hospital-acquired infection
- Hospital-acquired pneumonia
- Host (biology)
- Host microbe interactions in Caenorhabditis elegans
- Host tropism
- Hot air oven
- Hoyle's agar
- Human Microbiome Project
- Human Pathogens and Toxins Act
- Human interactions with microbes
- Human microbiome
- Human milk oligosaccharide
- Human pathogen
- Human virome
- Human-to-human transmission
- Human-to-primate transmission
- Hutchinson's triad
- Hydrobacteria
- Hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria
- Hydrodynamic focusing
- Hydrogen sulfide chemosynthesis
- Hydrogenotroph
- Hydrothermal vent microbial communities
- Hyena butter
- Hyperendemic
- Hypnozygote
- IMViC
- Immunization during pregnancy
- Impedance microbiology
- In situ bioremediation
- Inclusion bodies
- Incubation period
- Incubator (culture)
- Indian Society for Parasitology
- Indicator bacteria
- Indole test
- Industrial fermentation
- Industrial microbiology
- Infection
- Infection prevention and control
- Infection rate
- Infections associated with diseases
- Infectious Disease (Notification) Act 1889
- Infectious Disease Pharmacokinetics Laboratory
- Infectious causes of cancer
- Infectious diseases (athletes)
- Infectious diseases (medical specialty)
- Infectious period
- Inherited sterility in insects
- Inna Sekirov
- Inoculation loop
- Inoculation needle
- Inspissation
- Instruments used in medical laboratories
- Instruments used in microbiology
- Integrase
- Integrative and conjugative element
- Integron
- International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation Society
- International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes
- International Pathogenic Neisseria Conference
- International Sanitary Conferences
- International Society for Microbial Ecology
- Interspecies quorum sensing
- Intestinal infectious diseases
- Intimin
- Intracellular bacteria
- Intracellular parasite
- Intrastructural help
- Intrinsic immunity
- Introduction to viruses
- Invertebrate mitochondrial code
- Irina Ivshina
- Iron oxide nanoparticle
- Isolation (health care)
- Isolation (microbiology)
- Isolation ward
- Japan Collection of Microorganisms
- Jaswant Singh–Bhattacharji stain
- Jena Microbial Resource Collection
- Jennifer Martiny
- Jon Lloyd (microbiologist)
- Kappa organism
- Kathrin Jansen
- Kauffman–White classification
- Kennel cough
- Kibong'oto Hospital
- Kimberly Ritchie
- Kinyoun stain
- Kleptoparasitism
- Kleptopredation
- Koch's postulates
- Koch–Pasteur rivalry
- Konstanty Janicki
- Lab Lemco
- Laboratory water bath
- Laboratory-acquired infection
- Lacticaseibacillus casei
- Lacto-N-tetraose
- Lactofuchsin mount
- Lactophenol cotton blue
- Lamalginite
- Laminar flow cabinet
- Lancefield grouping
- Latent period (epidemiology)
- Lauryl tryptose broth
- Leaky scanning
- Leeuwenhoek Lecture
- Leeuwenhoek Medal
- Legionella lansingensis
- Lentisphaerota
- Lesley Hoyles
- Lightwood's law
- Liptinite
- Lisa Roberts (academic)
- Lithoautotroph
- Lithophile
- Lithotroph
- Litmus milk
- Live virus reference strain
- Live-cell imaging
- Locus of enterocyte effacement
- Lorica (biology)
- Lower respiratory tract infection
- Lucy Jumeyi Ogbadu
- Lyme disease microbiology
- Lysine iron agar
- Lysogenic cycle
- Lytic cycle
- Löffler's medium
- MEGARes
- MMN medium
- MRC-5
- Magnetic resonance imaging
- Magnetofection
- Malachite green
- Malettinin
- Mannitol salt agar
- Marine microbial symbiosis
- Marine microorganisms
- Marine prokaryotes
- Marine protists
- Marinobacter algicola
- Marjory Stephenson Prize
- Mark Wheelis
- Martinus Beijerinck
- Matground
- Mating bridge
- Mating type
- Maxwell Finland Award
- McFarland standards
- McIntosh and Fildes' anaerobic jar
- MecA
- Medical microbiology
- Meguro Parasitological Museum
- Merozoite surface protein
- Mesophile
- Mesorhizobium hawassense
- Metagenomics
- Metallotolerant
- Metaproteomics
- Metatranscriptomics
- Methane-producing bacteria
- Methanogen
- Methanogens in digestive tract of ruminants
- Methylmalonyl-CoA
- Methylotroph
- Michael McClelland (academic)
- Micro-atmosphere method
- Microaerophile
- MicrobeLibrary
- Microbes and Man
- Microbial Culture Collection
- Microbial art
- Microbial biodegradation
- Microbial biogeography
- Microbial consortium
- Microbial cyst
- Microbial cytology
- Microbial dark matter
- Microbial ecology
- Microbial food web
- Microbial genetics
- Microbial intelligence
- Microbial loop
- Microbial mat
- Microbial pathogenesis
- Microbial phylogenetics
- Microbial population biology
- Microbial synergy
- Microbial toxin
- Microbiological culture
- Microbiologist
- Microbiology
- Microbiology Outreach Prize
- Microbiology Society
- Microbiology Society Prize Medal
- Microbiology of decomposition
- Microbiology of oxygen minimum zones
- Microbiome in the Drosophila gut
- Microbiomes of the built environment
- Microbiota
- Microbivory
- Microcystin
- Microecology
- Microneme
- Microorganism
- Microscope
- Microscopic discovery of bacteria
- Microscopic discovery of microorganisms
- Microscopy
- Microtechnique
- Miles and Misra method
- Milnesium alpigenum
- Minicell
- Minimum bactericidal concentration
- Minimum inhibitory concentration
- Mireille Dosso
- Mixotroph
- Modified Chee's medium
- Moeller stain
- Molecular Koch's postulates
- Molecular mimicry
- Mosquito-malaria theory
- Multidrug-resistant bacteria
- Multilevel Antimicrobial Polymer
- Multiplicity of infection
- Mycetoma
- Mycobacteria growth indicator tube
- Mycobacterium
- Mycobiome
- Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae
- Mycotic aneurysm
- N. Louise Glass
- Nanobacterium
- Nanobe
- Naphthomycin
- Nasopharyngeal swab
- National Collection of Industrial Food and Marine Bacteria
- National Collection of Industrial Microorganisms
- National Collection of Type Cultures
- National Collection of Yeast Cultures
- National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
- Necrobiome
- Necromeny
- Necrotizing pneumonia
- Negative room pressure
- Neglected tropical diseases
- Neonatal infection
- Neurovirology
- Neutrophile
- New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase 1
- New York City agar
- New Zealand Microbiology Network
- Niacin test
- Niphimycin
- Nishith Gupta
- Nitrate reductase test
- Nitrifying bacteria
- Nitrofurantoin
- Nitrogen fixation package
- Nocardioidaceae
- Nomenclature codes
- Non-cellular life
- Non-fermenter
- Non-gonococcal urethritis
- Non-motile bacteria
- Nonpathogenic organisms
- Nontuberculous mycobacteria
- Nonvenereal endemic syphilis
- Notifiable disease
- Novy–MacNeal–Nicolle medium
- Nuclear magnetic resonance
- Nucleoid
- Nurse cell
- Nutrient agar
- Obligate aerobe
- Obligate anaerobe
- Occupational infectious disease
- Occupational safety and health
- Odontella sinensis
- Oleaginous microorganism
- Oncovirus
- Ophiaster formosus
- Opportunistic infection
- Optochin
- Oral ecology
- Oral microbiology
- Original antigenic sin
- Orphan virus
- Osmotrophy
- Out of autoclave composite manufacturing
- Outer membrane vesicles
- Oxalotrophic
- Oxidase test
- Oxidative/fermentation glucose test
- P fimbriae
- PICRUSt
- PNP agar
- Paleoparasitology
- Paleovirology
- Pan-genome
- Pangenomics
- Papanicolaou stain
- Papernaia
- ParABS system
- Parakaryon myojinensis
- Parasite load
- Parasite-stress theory
- Parasitemia
- Parasitic castration
- Parasitism
- Parasitoid
- Parasitology
- Parasitophorous vacuole
- Parinaud's oculoglandular syndrome
- Passenger virus
- Pathogen
- Pathogenic microorganisms in frozen environments
- Pathogenomics
- Pathovar
- Patient under investigation
- Penicillin
- Periplasm
- Permissive
- Persister cells
- Pertactin
- Petri dish
- Petrifilm
- Petroleum microbiology
- PhEVER
- Phage display
- Phage ecology
- Phage monographs
- Phage typing
- Phageome
- PhagesDB
- Pharmaceutical microbiology
- Pharyngitis
- Phase-change incubator
- Phenotype microarray
- Phenotype mixing
- Phenotypic testing of mycobacteria
- Philip Bruce White
- Phlegmon
- Phosphatidylmyo-inositol mannosides
- Photoactivatable probes
- Photoheterotroph
- Phototroph
- Phototrophic biofilm
- PhrS
- Phycisphaerae
- Phycobilisome
- Phycodnaviridae
- Phyllosphere
- Phylosymbiosis
- Physical factors affecting microbial life
- Picardy sweat
- Pipette
- Pipette stand
- Piston (subcellular structure)
- Placental microbiome
- Plague Time: The New Germ Theory of Disease
- Planctomycetota
- Plankton net
- Plant virus
- Plant–fungus horizontal gene transfer
- Plaque hypotheses
- Plaque-forming unit
- Plate count agar
- Pleomorphism (microbiology)
- Pneumonia
- Polar capsule
- Polar filament
- Policeman (laboratory)
- Polynoxylin
- Polyphosphate-accumulating organisms
- Polysaccharide A
- Post-acute infection syndrome
- Potato dextrose agar
- Pratique
- Pre-integration complex
- Prebiotic (nutrition)
- Predictive microbiology
- Preorbital gland
- Prevalence of rabies
- Preventorium
- Primary isolate
- Prince Henry Hospital, Sydney
- Prion
- Probiotic
- Prochlorococcus
- Prokaryote
- Prophage
- Prosthetic joint infection
- Protective isolation
- Proteobiotics
- Protothecosis
- Provirus
- Pseudodiploid
- Pseudotyping
- Psychobiotic
- Psychrophile
- Pulsatile secretion
- Quantitative microbiological risk assessment
- Quantitative phase-contrast microscopy
- Quarantine
- Quasispecies model
- Quorum sensing
- R bodies
- R-factor
- Rabies
- Rappaport Vassiliadis soya peptone broth
- Rare biosphere
- Rat-bite fever
- Rate-zonal centrifugation
- Raúl Cuero
- Reassortment
- Rebecca Vega Thurber
- Recombinant virus
- Recrudescence
- Red Sea brine pool microbiology
- Rejuvelac
- Replica plating
- Reporter virus particles
- Respiratory tract infection
- Retinalophototroph
- Reutericyclin
- Reuterin
- Reverse zoonosis
- Revertant
- Rhizorhabdus wittichii
- Rhodamine B
- Rickettsia
- Ritiometan
- Root microbiome
- Run-and-tumble motion
- SERI microalgae culture collection
- Sabouraud agar
- Salivary microbiome
- Sapronosis
- Satellite (biology)
- Scalindua brodae
- Scalindua wagneri
- Schaeffer–Fulton stain
- Sea ice microbial communities
- Sebaceous gland
- Sec61
- SecA
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