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HELPFUL BACTERIA [2 records]

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Record 1 2025-09-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medication
CONT

Biologics, also called biologicals, are drugs made from living things. Sometimes, these substances come from human donors, such as donated blood. Other times, they are grown in a laboratory. For example, scientists might grow a type of bacteria that makes a helpful substance. Then, they harvest and purify the substance to use it as medicine. The substance is usually a type of protein, but it could also be sugar, nucleic acids, or a combination of multiple substances.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médicaments
DEF

Médicament dont la substance active est produite à partir d'une source biologique ou en est extraite.

OBS

Un médicament dérivé du sang, un vaccin, un anticorps monoclonal sont des exemples de médicaments biologiques.

OBS

médicament biologique; biomédicament : désignations et définition publiées au Journal officiel de la République française le 18 juillet 2025.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Medicamentos
OBS

Término proveniente del Código Zoosanitario Internacional, 2002.

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Record 2 2002-02-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Industries
  • Biochemistry
CONT

Maintaining and promoting the growth of helpful bacteria, while destroying the harmful strains, is vital to health. If harmful bacteria grow in too great a proportion, serious consequences can arise. A number of diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, colitis, diabetes, meningitis, thyroid disease and bowel cancer are throught to result from significantly altered bowel flora.

Key term(s)
  • helpful bacterium
  • useful bacterium

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
  • Biochimie
CONT

Les deux grands réservoirs de bactéries sur la terre sont le sol et les eaux d'une part, le tube digestif des animaux de l'autre. C'est ce second écosystème que nous prendrons comme exemple dans la suite. Parmi les bactéries utiles, on trouve en permanence dans le tube digestif de l'homme une population bactérienne complexe capable d'agir souvent positivement sur l'individu qui les héberge. On classe également parmi les bactéries utiles celles qui ont été domestiquées par l'homme (yaourts, produits laitiers fermentés...).

OBS

bactéries utiles : pluriel d'usage.

Key term(s)
  • bactérie utile

Spanish

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