| Bacteroides praeacutus | A species isolated from the intestinal tracts of infants and adults, gangrenous lesions, lung abscesses, and blood. Synonym: Tissierella praeacuta. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Bacteroides putredinis | A species isolated from faeces, cases of acute appendicitis, and abdominal and rectal abscesses; also from foot rot of sheep and from farm soil. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bacteroides thetaiotamicron | A species implicated in intra-abdominal infections. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bacteroides ureolyticus | A species isolated from infections of the respiratory and intestinal tracts, and from the buccal cavity, intestinal tract, urogenital tract, and blood after a dental extraction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bacteroidosis | Rarely used term for an infection with Bacteroides. (05 Mar 2000) |
| baculiform | Rod-shaped. Origin: L. Baculum, a rod, + forma, form (05 Mar 2000) |
| baculite | <paleontology> A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite. Origin: L. Baculune stick, staff; cf. F. Baculite. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| baculoviridae | <virology> The family name for a group of viruses which infect insects. There is only one genus within the family: Baculovirus. (09 Oct 1997) |
| Baculovirus | <virology> Viruses specialised as pathogens of lepidopteran larvae. Widely used as eukaryotic expression vectors for proteins requiring post translational modifications such as glycosylation, proteolytic cleavage and fatty acylation. (18 Nov 1997) |
| baculum | Synonym: os penis. Origin: L. A rod (05 Mar 2000) |