Gram-positive ((of bacteria) being or relating to a bacterium that retains the violet stain used in Gram's method). Gram-negative ((of bacteria) being of or relating to a bacterium that does not retain the violet stain used in Gram's method). Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of bacteria):
Outdoors experts: Keep ticks off by spraying repellent on your clothes. A female deer tick. Shane Wilkinson, camping equipment manager at Bass Pro Shops in the Fingerlakes Mall, said he was among those who mistakenly thought this past winter was going to put a real hurt on the ticks.
After an infected tick sinks its mouth parts into a personâs skin and begins to feed, the bacteria mosey up from the gut to the tickâs salivary glands and into the person. But a tick has to be attached for a long time before the bacteria make their way into the body â somewhere in the window of 36 to 48 hours.