Bacterivore

Bacterivorous are free-living, single-celled, heterotrophic organisms that meet their energy and nutrient requirements on the phagocytosis of bacteria. Some amoebae species and some species of protozoa are bakterivor. To their prey includes almost all kinds of bacteria. The spores of some species such as Clostridium perfringens, owing to their cell-specific properties not constitute prey

Bacterivorous in microbiology

In water microbiology water samples can be analyzed in terms of micro-organisms. In most untreated water samples must be assumed that except bacteria and bacterivorous can be found in the samples. By addition of the antibiotic cycloheximide bacterivorous be selectively removed from the sample, since cycloheximide to inhibit their growth. For bacterially -affected sediment the determined amount of the added Cycloheximids is 2 g per 100 g sediment. In the examination of spores can be dispensed with the addition of cycloheximide.

Known bacterivorous

• Ceriodaphnia quadrangula
• Diaphanosoma brachyura
• Paramecium ( Paramecium )
• Some vorticella ( Vorticellidae )