MRCP UK EXAMINATIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Escherichia coli and species of Bacillus, Legionella, Mycobacterium, Pseudomonas, Sinorhizobium, Staphylococcus, and Vibrio have all been characterized as exhibiting sliding motility. Some of these bacteria have motile appendages (or have the genes predicted to be needed) while others do not.

Detailed explanation-2: -There are different types of motility, often classified as swimming, swarming, twitching, gliding, and sliding [3, 4]. Swimming consists of movement in a liquid environment typically by using flagella, long, thin appendages attached to the cell [1].

Detailed explanation-3: -Most animals are motile, using means such as walking, slithering, swimming, and flying to propel themselves through the world. Many single-celled and microscopic organisms are also motile, using methods such as flagellar motility, amoeboid movement, gliding motility, and swarming motility.

Detailed explanation-4: -Locomotion or motility is important characteristic of bacteria. Bacterial locomotion is of three types: Flagellar, Spirochaetal and Gliding movement.