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Benefits for humans:
- help the digestion of foods in our intestines, as well as keep our digestive system clean. - Manufacture vitamins and essential fatty acids for our bodies. - Increases the number of immune system cells, which fight bad bacteria, preventing infections and sickness. - People use bacteria to make vinegar out of wine, and cheese and yogurt from milk. - Bacteria are the component of some antibiotics and antifungals, which prevent the growth of harmful bacteria and fungi. - Some bacteria are a good source of protein, and can be sold in stores as a vitamin. |
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| Benefits for animals:
- Cows, deer, goats, giraffes, and other animals have bacteria in their
stomach which helps them digest cellulose from grass and hay. Without
these bacteria, these animals would not receive the proper nutrients and
would become unhealthy.
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Benefits for earth:
-Bacteria are the only living things which can fix nitrogen, creating a natural fertilizer to help plants grow. - Bacteria are the major decomposers of dead plants and animals, releasing nutrients to be re-used by other living things - Bacteria produce oxygen for the atmosphere using photosynthesis just as plants do. |
The Diseases Caused by Bacteria
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Disease Leprosy (Hansen's Disease) Mycobacterium leprae G. A. Hansen, 1873 Tetanus Clostridium tetani A. Nicolaier, 1884 Whooping Cough Bordetella pertussis J. Bordet and O. Gengou, 1906 Typhoid Fever Salmonella typhi C. J. Eberth, 1880 Paratyphoid Fever Salmonella paratyphi H. Schottmuller, 1900 Cholera Vibrio cholorae R. Koch, 1883 Plague Yersinia pestis S. Kitasato, A.T. E. Yersin, 1894 Tuberculosis Mycobacterium tuberculosis R. Koch 1882 Meningitis Neisseria meningitidis A. Weichselbaum, 1887 Bacterial Pneumonia Streptococcus pneumoniae A. Fraenkal, 1886 Anthrax Bacillus anthracis R. Koch, 1877 Botulism Clostridium botulinum E. M. P. Van Ermengem, 1896 Bacterial Dysentry Shigella dysenteriae K. Shiga, 1898 Diarrhoea Escherichia coli T. Escherich, 1885 Food Poisoning Salmonella enteriditis A. A. H. Gaertner, 1888 Gas Gangrene Clostridium perfringens W. H. Welch, 1892 Syphilis Treponema pallidum F. R. Schaudinn and E. Hoffman, 1903 Diphtheria Corynebacterium diphtheriae T. A. E. Klebs, 1883 Gonorrhoea Neisseria gonorrhoeae A. L. S. Neisser, 1879 Q Fever Coxiella burnetti Trench Fever Rochalimaea quintana Trench Fever Rochalimaea vinsonii H I Influenza Haemophilus influenzae Typhus Fever Reckettsia prowazekii Lyme Disease Borrelia burgdorferi Tooth Decay Streptococcus mutans Scarlet Fever Streptococcus pyogenes Tonsillitis Streptococcus pyogenes Gasteroenteritis Escherichia coli Food Poisoning Clostridium perfringens Toxic Shock Syndrome Staphylococcus aureus Scrub typhus Orientia tsutsugamushi Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Rickettsii riskettsii Human Monocytic Erhlichiosis Erhlichia chaffensis Legionnaires' Disease Legionella pneumophilia |
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