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• Bacterial toxins present in food causes food poisoning.<\/li>\n
• This leads into nausea, vomiting, abdominal discomfort diarrhea and even death.<\/li>\n
• The food poisoning bacteria are Clostridium botulinum, Salmonella enteritis, Staphylococcus aureus etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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  • Souring of milk, rotting of vegetables and meat are caused by many saprotrophic bacteria.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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    • Spirochaete cytophaga cause cellulose degradation thereby destroying textiles, wooden articles and canvas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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      • Denitrifying bacteria like Thiobacillus denitrificans, Micrococcus denitrificans, Pseudomonas aeroginosa convert soil nitrates and ammonia into free nitrogen and thus reduce the soil fertility.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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        • The denitrifying bacteria decompose nitrogen compound into free nitrogen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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          • The improved variety of infective agents (bioweapons) are widely been used as an agent of effective weapon of bioterrorism.<\/li>\n
          • The antibiotic resistant microorganisms like Bacillusanthracis are being produced at large scale and when these are released at strategic locations, they cause acute infection of anthrax.<\/li>\n
          • The spores of B. anthracis can be produced and stored in a dry from keeping them vaible for decades in storage or after release.<\/li>\n
          • An attack with bioweapons (antibiotic resistant strains mould) leads to spread of communicable diseases like anthrax and plague etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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