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facultative

empowering but not compelling the doing of an act.

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keaysi: 3 females, 19 males) and two facultatively piscivores (M.

Bite force, cranial morphometries and size in the fishing bat Myotis vivesi (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)

Previous studies showed that, under aerobic conditions, the growth of aerobic or facultatively anaerobic bacteria within a biofilm reduces the level of oxygen present thereby facilitating the growth of strictly anaerobic bacteria [18].

Planktonic Growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa around a Dual-Species Biofilm Supports the Growth of Fusobacterium nucleatum within That Biofilm

anthracis is a gram-positive, aerobic or facultatively anaerobic, spore-forming, rod-shaped bacterium causing the clinical picture of anthrax.

Cutaneous anthrax patients: evaluation of four family members

Timely intervention with antituberculosis drugs should ensure a dramatic recovery, while a delay might result in malignant transformation (primarily squamous cell carcinoma), since LV-being a chronic, indolent, cutaneous lesion-may behave as facultatively precancerous.

Granulomatous ulcers of the nose and oropharynx: Lupus vulgaris revisited

Streptobacillus moniliformis is a facultatively anaerobic, highly pleomorphic gram negative bacillus [21].

Rat bite fever resembling rheumatoid arthritis

Lactococcus garvieae is known as a Gram-positive, catalasenegative, and facultatively anaerobic fish pathogen.

First Case Report of a Late Onset Knee Periprosthetic Joint Infection Caused by Lactococcus garvieae

The present study is among the first to document experimentally that female amphibians facultatively forgo oviposition in response to water reduction of aquatic habitats.

Facultative oviposition of Eastern Newt (Notophthalmus viridescens) in response to water reduction of aquatic habitats

2005: Asymmetric costs favor female desertion in the facultatively polyandrous northern flicker (Colaptes auratus).

Sequential polyandry in female Tengmalm's owl (Aegolius funereus) during a poor rodent year

Corynebacterium species are Gram positive, catalase-positive, aerobic or facultatively anaerobic non-motile rods often with clubbed ends occurring singly or in pairs.

Therapeutic management of urinary tract infection in a mare

These bacteria are characteristically Gram-positive, non-motile, non-spore forming, and aerobic or facultatively anaerobic.

Prevalence of enterotoxin genes and antibacterial susceptibility pattern of Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from animal originated foods in West of Iran

Culture bottles were transported to the laboratory and incubated at 37C for aerobic and facultatively anaerobic environment which were observed daily for growth for the next 7 days.

SPECTRUM OF BURN WOUND ISOLATES THEIR ANTIBIOTIC SUSCEPTIBILITY PROFILE AND INCIDENCE OF BACTEREMIA IN PATIENTS WITH BURN WOUND INFECTIONS