AEROBE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aerobe mean? 

• AEROBE (noun)
  The noun AEROBE has 1 sense:

1. an organism (especially a bacterium) that requires air or free oxygen for life

  Familiarity information: AEROBE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AEROBE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An organism (especially a bacterium) that requires air or free oxygen for life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("aerobe" is a kind of...):

being; organism (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)

 Context examples 

Meropenem acts against aerobes and anaerobes including Klebsiella, E. coli, Enterococcus, Clostridium sp..

(Meropenem, NCI Thesaurus)

A daloxate ester prodrug form of faropenem, a penem with a tetrahydrofuran substituent at position C2, with broad-spectrum antibacterial activity against many gram-positive and gram-negative aerobes and anaerobes.

(Faropenem Medoxomil, NCI Thesaurus)

A penem with a tetrahydrofuran substituent at position C2, with broad-spectrum antibacterial activity against many gram-positive and gram-negative aerobes and anaerobes.

(Faropenem, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of bacteria within the phylum Firmicutes consisting of gram-positive bacilli that are either obligate or facultative aerobes, and test positive for the enzyme catalase.

(Bacillus, NCI Thesaurus)