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MICROBIAL ATTACK [3 records]

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Record 1 2020-09-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Microbial Ecology
CONT

Despite the prevalence of microbes in the ocean and the devastating nature of pathogen-borne epidemics, disease among marine plants appears to be rare, and thus many plants likely possess traits that make them resistant to microbial attack.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie microbienne
CONT

Les mécanismes actuels d'attaque microbienne sont peu connus et même aujourd'hui il n'existe pas beaucoup de travaux de recherche dans ce domaine.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ecología microbiana
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Record 2 2011-02-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Evidence
  • Microbiology and Parasitology
  • Epidemiology
DEF

... a scientific discipline dedicated to analysing evidence from a bioterrorism act, biocrime, or inadvertent microorganism [OR] toxin release for attribution purposes.

CONT

Microbial forensics combines principles of public health epidemiology and law enforcement to identify patterns in a disease outbreak, determine which pathogen may be involved, and trace the organism to its source.

CONT

Bioforensics, which is sometimes referred to as microbial forensics, or as forensic microbiology, is a developing interdisciplinary field of microbiology devoted to the development, assessment, and validation of methods for fully characterizing microbial samples for the ultimate purpose of high-confidence comparative analyses. It supports attribution investigations involving pathogens or toxins of biological origin used in a biological attack.

OBS

... the ultimate goal of attribution is identification of the persons who committed the bioterrorist act or biocrime, intentionally or inadvertently. In addition to microbiological analytical tools, traditional forensic analyses, such as human DNA analysis, dermatoglyphic patterns, analytical chemistry, tool marks, and other techniques will be used to analyze a bioterrorist event or biocrime evidence.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la preuve
  • Microbiologie et parasitologie
  • Épidémiologie
CONT

La microbiologie médicolégale est une discipline scientifique relativement récente qui consiste à analyser les données microbiologiques afin d'identifier les coupables d'un crime. Elle se fonde sur la microbiologie et l'épidémiologie classiques, mais dans un cadre juridique.

Key term(s)
  • microbiologie médico-légale

Spanish

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Record 3 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Soil Science
OBS

--the part of humus that is resistant to microbial attack(and is insoluble in acetyl bromide).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Science du sol
OBS

--partie de la matière organique du sol résistante à la décomposition par voie microbienne.

Spanish

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