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Inhibiting or retarding the growth of bacteria. An agent that inhibits the growth or multiplication of bacteria. Preventing the growth of bacteria with-out killing them. Referring to a substance which does not kill bacteria but stops them from multiplying. The action of a drug or antibiotic which results in the inhibition of growth and of…

An agent that inhibits or retards the growth and multiplication of bacteria. A class of antibiotics or chemicals which prevents the growth of bacteria, in contrast with a bacteriocide, which kills bacteria.  

Characterized by or promoting the dissolution or destruction of bacteria. Referring to a substance which can destroy bacteria.  

Caused by bacteria. Bacteria producing.  

An agent capable of destroying bacteria. Also termed bacteriocide. Anything that destroys bacteria. A substance which destroys bacteria. Anything which kills bacteria; the term is, however, usually applied to drugs and antiseptics which do this Hence bactericidal. An agent that destroys bacteria, but not necessarily their spores.  

A process of colonization by oral bacteria in a predictable, temporal pattern, with resident organisms altering the environment, allowing new organisms to become established or certain bacteria to achieve dominance.  

Colonization and release of bacteria at the interface of an oral implant abutment and implant.  

Any of various collagenases purified from a variety of microbes; they preferentially cleave collagen on the N‐terminal side of glycine residues and occur in several classes of differing specificity. Bacterial collagenases are used in tissue disruption for cell harvesting.  

An extracellular coating usually composed of mucopolysaccharides produced by some bacteria. May increase an organism’s virulence by interfering with the nonspecific immune system (phagocytosis) of the host. A thick, gelatinous outer layer round a bacterium, composed of polysaccharides, proteins or polypeptides. Possession of a capsule is frequently linked with virulence, and the capsular material often…

Members of a group of ubiquitous, singlecelled microorganisms that have a prokaryotic (primitive) cell type. Many of these are etiologic in diseases that affect all life forms, including humans and other animals.