gliding bacteria

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gliding bacteria - bacteria that form colonies in self-produced slime; inhabit moist soils or decaying plant matter or animal waste

myxobacter, myxobacteria, myxobacterium, slime bacteria

eubacteria, eubacterium, true bacteria - a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella

Myxobacterales, Myxobacteriales, order Myxobacterales, order Myxobacteria, order Myxobacteriales - an order of higher bacteria

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Edwardsiella tarda belonged to gliding bacteria can cause ascites.

Studies on Bacterial Diversity and Vibrio harveyi Distribution Associated with Diseased fugu (Takifugu rubripes) in Northeastern China

Socransky, "Capnocytophaga: new genus of Gram-negative gliding bacteria. II.

Capnocytophaga Induced Acute Necrotizing and Exudative Pericarditis with Abscess Formation

To the Editor: The genus Chitinophaga, first described by Sangkhobol and Skerman in 1981, belongs to the phylum Bacteroidetes (formerly the Cytophaga-Flexibacter-Bacteroides group), which includes filamentous, chitinolytic, gliding bacteria that transform into spherical bodies upon aging (1).