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  2. Biological hazard - Wikipedia

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    A yellow on black or white-coloured background is used behind a black biohazard symbol when integrated with a CAUTION sign, label or paragraph. A green on white or white-coloured background is used behind a black biohazard symbol when integrated with a NOTICE sign, label or paragraph. DANGER is used to identify a biohazard that will cause death.

  3. Germ theory of disease - Wikipedia

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    A representation by Robert Seymour of the cholera epidemic depicts the spread of the disease in the form of poisonous air.. The miasma theory was the predominant theory of disease transmission before the germ theory took hold towards the end of the 19th century; it is no longer accepted as a correct explanation for disease by the scientific community.

  4. Germ-free animal - Wikipedia

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    This process uses a non-germ-free mother which is sacrificed and sterilized before the pups' birth. After the cesarean birth, the pups must then be transferred to a sterile incubator with a germ-free mother for feeding and growth. [9] [10] These methods are only required for the generation of a germ-free mouse line. Once a line is generated ...

  5. Microorganism - Wikipedia

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    A microorganism, or microbe, [a] is an organism of microscopic size, which may exist in its single-celled form or as a colony of cells.. The possible existence of unseen microbial life was suspected from ancient times, such as in Jain scriptures from sixth century BC India.

  6. Petri dish - Wikipedia

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    A Petri dish (alternatively known as a Petri plate or cell-culture dish) is a shallow transparent lidded dish that biologists use to hold growth medium in which cells can be cultured, [1] [2] originally, cells of bacteria, fungi and small mosses. [3] The container is named after its inventor, German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri.

  7. Bacillus atrophaeus - Wikipedia

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    Bacillus atrophaeus is a species of black-pigmented bacteria. Its type strain is NRRL NRS-213. [2] B. atrophaeus strains have been used extensively in biomedicine as indicator strains for heat- and chemical-based decontamination regimens.

  8. Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation - Wikipedia

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    The UV lamp never contacts the water; it is either housed in a quartz glass sleeve inside the water chamber or mounted externally to the water, which flows through the transparent UV tube. Water passing through the flow chamber is exposed to UV rays, which are absorbed by suspended solids, such as microorganisms and dirt, in the stream.

  9. Germ - Wikipedia

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    Germ (microorganism), an informal word for a pathogen Germ cell, cell that gives rise to the gametes of an organism that reproduces sexually; Germ layer, a primary layer of cells that forms during embryonic development