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Indicator organism

Index Indicator organism

Indicator organisms are used as a proxy to monitor conditions in a particular environment, ecosystem, area, habitat, or consumer product. [1]

29 relations: Aspergillus fumigatus, Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus versicolor, Bacteria, Bioindicator, Candida albicans, Clostridia, Coliform bacteria, Coliform index, Escherichia coli, Exophiala, Fungus, Fusarium, Growth medium, Helminths, MacConkey agar, Pathogen, Penicillium, Phialophora, Protozoa, Resource recovery, Sanitation, Stachybotrys, Streptococcus bovis, Surface water, Trichoderma, Ulocladium, Virus, Wastewater.

Aspergillus fumigatus

Aspergillus fumigatus is a fungus of the genus Aspergillus, and is one of the most common Aspergillus species to cause disease in individuals with an immunodeficiency.

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Aspergillus niger

Aspergillus niger is a fungus and one of the most common species of the genus Aspergillus.

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Aspergillus versicolor

Aspergillus versicolor is a slow-growing filamentous fungus commonly found in damp indoor environments and on food products.

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Bacteria

Bacteria (common noun bacteria, singular bacterium) is a type of biological cell.

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Bioindicator

A bioindicator is any species (an indicator species) or group of species whose function, population, or status can reveal the qualitative status of the environment.

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Candida albicans

Candida albicans is an opportunistic pathogenic yeast that is a common member of the human gut flora.

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Clostridia

The Clostridia are a highly polyphyletic class of Firmicutes, including Clostridium and other similar genera.

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Coliform bacteria

Coliform bacteria are defined as rod-shaped Gram-negative non-spore forming and motile or non-motile bacteria which can ferment lactose with the production of acid and gas when incubated at 35–37°C.

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Coliform index

The coliform index is a rating of the purity of water based on a count of fecal bacteria.

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Escherichia coli

Escherichia coli (also known as E. coli) is a Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped, coliform bacterium of the genus Escherichia that is commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms (endotherms).

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Exophiala

Exophiala is a genus of anamorphic fungi in the family Herpotrichiellaceae.

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Fungus

A fungus (plural: fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms.

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Fusarium

Fusarium is a large genus of filamentous fungi, part of a group often referred to as hyphomycetes, widely distributed in soil and associated with plants.

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Growth medium

A growth medium or culture medium is a solid, liquid or semi-solid designed to support the growth of microorganisms or cells, or small plants like the moss Physcomitrella patens.

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Helminths

Helminths, also commonly known as parasitic worms, are large multicellular parasites, which can generally be seen with the naked eye when they are mature.

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MacConkey agar

MacConkey agar is an indicator, a selective and differential culture medium for bacteria designed to selectively isolate Gram-negative and enteric (normally found in the intestinal tract) bacilli and differentiate them based on lactose fermentation.

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Pathogen

In biology, a pathogen (πάθος pathos "suffering, passion" and -γενής -genēs "producer of") or a '''germ''' in the oldest and broadest sense is anything that can produce disease; the term came into use in the 1880s.

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Penicillium

Penicillium ascomycetous fungi are of major importance in the natural environment as well as food and drug production.

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Phialophora

Phialophora is a form genus of fungus with short conidiophores, sometimes reduced to phialides; their conidia are unicellular.

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Protozoa

Protozoa (also protozoan, plural protozoans) is an informal term for single-celled eukaryotes, either free-living or parasitic, which feed on organic matter such as other microorganisms or organic tissues and debris.

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Resource recovery

Resource recovery is using wastes as an input material to create valuable products as new outputs.

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Sanitation

Sanitation refers to public health conditions related to clean drinking water and adequate treatment and disposal of human excreta and sewage.

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Stachybotrys

Stachybotrys is a genus of molds, hyphomycetes or asexually reproducing, filamentous fungi.

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Streptococcus bovis

Streptococcus gallolyticus, formerly Streptococcus bovis (S. bovis), is a species of Gram-positive bacteria that in humans is associated with urinary tract infections, endocarditisRyan K.J. and C.G. Ray CG (editors).

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Surface water

Surface water is water on the surface of the planet such as in a river, lake, wetland, or ocean.

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Trichoderma

Trichoderma is a genus of fungi that is present in all soils, where they are the most prevalent culturable fungi.

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Ulocladium

Ulocladium is a genus of fungi.

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Virus

A virus is a small infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of other organisms.

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Wastewater

Wastewater (or waste water) is any water that has been affected by human use.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indicator_organism

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