| streptavidin | <protein> Analogue of avidin. A protein isolated from Streptomycetes avidinii that has a high affinity for biotin. Used to detect biotin markers. (18 Nov 1997) |
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| strepticaemia | The presence of streptococci in the blood. Synonym: strepticaemia, streptosepticaemia. Origin: streptococcus + G. Haima, blood (05 Mar 2000) |
| streptidine | Commonly used antibiotic in cell culture media: acts only on prokaryotes and blocks transition from initiation complex to chain elongating ribosome. Isolated originally from a soil streptomycete. (18 Nov 1997) |
| strepto- | Curved or twisted (usually relating to organisms thus described). Origin: G. Streptos, twisted, fr. Strepho, to twist (05 Mar 2000) |
| streptobacilli | Bacilli that remain attached in chains after cell division. (09 Oct 1997) |
| streptobacillus | A genus of gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacteria that require serum, ascitic fluid, or blood for growth. Its organisms inhabit the throat and nasopharynx of wild and laboratory rats and cause one form of rat-bite fever in man. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Streptobacillus moniliformis | A species commonly found as an inhabitant of the nasopharynx of rats; it occurs as the aetiologic agent of an epizootic septic polyarthritis in mice and of one type of rat-bite fever; it is the type species of the genus Streptobacillus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| streptobacteria | Sing. Streptobracterium . [NL, fr. Gr. Pliant, bent + E. & NL. Bacteria. <biology> A so-called variety of bacterium, consisting in reality of several bacteria linked together in the form of a chain. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| streptobiosamine | A methylamino disaccharide (streptose + N-methyl-l-glucosamine), with the oxygen link between C-2 of streptose and C-1 of the glucosamine; with streptidine, it forms streptomycin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| streptobiose | Old term for streptose. (05 Mar 2000) |
| streptocerciasis | Infection of man and higher primates with the nematode Mansonella streptocerca. (05 Mar 2000) |
| streptococcaceae | Gram-positive non-sporing bacteria including many parasitic, pathogenic, and saprophytic forms. (12 Dec 1998) |
| streptococcaemia | The presence of streptococci in the blood. Synonym: strepticaemia, streptosepticaemia. Origin: streptococcus + G. Haima, blood (05 Mar 2000) |
| streptococcal | Relating to or caused by any organism of the genus Streptococcus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| streptococcal fibrinolysin | <enzyme> Plasminogen activator released by Streptococcus pyogenes. Occurs in two forms, A and B. (18 Nov 1997) |