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bacteria
vr.tr.bacteria · thing-q10876
Let an agent handle bacteria by taxon, habitat, role, health relevance and uses, without diagnosis or personal medical advice.
Thing Registry Physical world and living systems PHY.LIV
Bundle → Layer → Finding → QuestionsClassifiersWhat it isWhy it existsDistinguishing featuresWhat robots and AI may and may not doMoral aspectsOwnersLinks to other meta-modelsIdentity and identifiersDirect propertiesRecognitionCapabilities and actionsHazards and failure modesStandards and interfacesContext of useSources
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Classification Which bacterium.
Taxon
Name.
Taxon
Taxon.
- Which bacterium is meant, and what is its current valid name? provenance
- Is it Gram-positive or Gram-negative? definition
Habitat
Where found.
Habitat
Habitat.
- Where does it live, according to reliable sources? provenance
- Is it part of the normal microbiota? definition
Health Infections.
Symptoms
Seeking care.
Symptoms
Seeking care.
- Are symptoms severe or worsening, needing urgent care? boundary
- Which service should be contacted? action
Antibiotics
Resistance.
Antibiotics
Antibiotic use.
- Why should antibiotics only be taken as prescribed? provenance
- What do health authorities say about resistance? provenance
Hygiene Prevention.
Food
Food safety.
Food
Food safety.
- How can bacterial food poisoning be prevented, according to food safety guidance? provenance
- Which temperatures are safe? measurement
Handwashing
Everyday hygiene.
Handwashing
Hand hygiene.
- What hand hygiene do health authorities recommend? provenance
- When is it most important? definition
Uses Beneficial bacteria.
Food uses
Fermentation.
Food uses
Fermentation.
- Which bacteria are used to make yoghurt, cheese or sauerkraut? provenance
- How does fermentation work? definition
Biotechnology
Industry.
Biotechnology
Biotechnology.
- How are bacteria used in biotechnology or wastewater treatment? definition
- What regulation applies? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.LIV
- Other names and narrower kinds
- soil bacterium, Aerobic anoxygenic photoheterotroph bacteria, pathogenic bacteria, Carboxydotrophs, anaerobic bacteria, aerobic bacteria, Plant-growth promoting rhizobacteria, bacterioplankton, phototrophic bacteria, psychrophile bacteria, marine bacteria, entomopathogenic bacterium
What it is Filled
Single-celled prokaryotic microorganisms without a nucleus, found in soil, water, air and on and in other organisms; most are harmless or beneficial, some cause disease, and many are used in food, industry and research.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent handle bacteria by taxon, habitat, role, health relevance and uses, without diagnosis or personal medical advice.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Prokaryotic cells
- Everywhere on Earth
- Mostly harmless or useful
- Some are pathogens
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Help anyone obtain, grow or spread bacteria in order to harm people, animals or crops.
- Advise antibiotic treatment or dosing for a person or animal.
- Present a laboratory identification as a clinical diagnosis.
- Handle or dispose of bacterial cultures outside the containment rules for the organism.
Only with a human decision
- Any decision on treating a bacterial infection.
- Reporting a notifiable infection to public health authorities.
May
- Identify and report bacteria from laboratory data, citing the method used.
- Explain the roles of bacteria in health, soil and food, citing sources.
Moral aspects Filled
- Most bacteria are harmless or needed for life, but a few cause deadly disease.
- Overuse of antibiotics drives resistance that threatens everyone's future care.
Who is affected
- Patients and their contacts
- Laboratory workers
- The wider public
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody: wild organisms; laboratories and biosafety regulators answer for cultures held.
Master systems
- Microbial strain collections and taxonomy databases
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q39833 - registry parent class
related
- microorganism - category
- antibiotic - therapy
- microbiome - community
- virus and archaea - other microbes
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.bacteria
- Wikidata: Q10876 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10876)
- NCBI Taxonomy ID: numeric taxonomy
- LPSN name: validly published names nomenclature
Direct properties required Filled
- typical size: about 0.5-5 micrometres
Recognition required Filled
- Shapes such as cocci, bacilli, spirilla
- Gram-positive or Gram-negative staining
- Archaea are a separate domain
- Microscopic rods, spheres or spirals, seen under the microscope or as colonies on plates.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- classify bacteria by taxonomy and shape
- explain beneficial and harmful roles
- find public health and hygiene guidance
- understand antibiotic resistance
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Agents diagnosing infections
- Antibiotic misuse and resistance
- Laboratory biosafety detail beyond general information
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes
- Biosafety rules for laboratories
- Food hygiene law
Context of use required Filled
- A subject of biology, health, food, environment and biotechnology.
- soil and environmental bacteria
- gut and skin microbiota
- pathogenic bacteria
- industrial and food bacteria
- photosynthetic bacteria
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q10876: Bacteria - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Bacteria - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should bacterial groups be separate entries?
- How should taxonomy databases be linked?
- How should resistance data be sourced?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
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