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A fastidious organism is any organism that has complex or particular nutritional requirements. In other words, a fastidious organism will only grow when

collectively referred to as the Blixens, are Pondscüm's android henchmen. Fastidious James Spiffington (voiced by Mark Bowden) is a hamster obsessed with cleanliness

Gimenez technique may be valuable for detecting certain slow-growing or fastidious bacteria. Basic fuchsin stain in aqueous solution with phenol and ethanol

required for microorganism and cell culture growth. Some organisms, termed fastidious organisms, require specialized environments due to complex nutritional

head lice) from another person's hair. As nitpicking inherently requires fastidious attention to detail, the term has become appropriated to describe the

been lysed by slowly heating to 80°C. Chocolate agar is used for growing fastidious respiratory bacteria, such as Haemophilus influenzae and Neisseria meningitidis

sores on the genitalia. Chancroid is a bacterial infection caused by the fastidious Gram-negative streptobacillus Haemophilus ducreyi. Chancroid is known

are polar opposites in some way, such as a messy wife swapping with a fastidiously neat one, or a stay-at-home mother swapping with a high-powered career

fable constructed to illustrate the moral that one should not be over-fastidious in making choices since, as the ancient proverb proposes, 'He that will

Moraxella catarrhalis is a fastidious, nonmotile, Gram-negative, aerobic, oxidase-positive diplococcus that can cause infections of the respiratory system