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Stomach bacteria are microorganisms, which cannot be seen with the naked eye. These Stomach bacteria can grow very fast as soon as they get most favorable conditions.  There are some friendly bacteria such as intestinal flora or micro flora which is good form human health. These healthy stomach bacteria are helpful to release many useful vitamins such as vitamin K and vitamin B etc.  The most important task that stomach bacteria will do is to maintain normal Ph level or acid level of human stomach. It is important to maintain normal ph level to remain healthy, but it is also important at the same time to maintain normal level of bacteria.

Many Different Types of Stomach Bacteria

There are many types of stomach bacteria such as intestinal bacteria, which are helpful to digestive system also; lacto bacteria that keep candida and other harmful infections under control, it works almost like an anti-body. These bacteria will spread like wildfire in our systems. The most important advantage of this candida bacterium is that it protects immune system of humans from external infections.

There are many sources of bacteria, the common source of stomach bacteria can be food, water, air, our skin, mouth, digestive track or other areas of our body.

Some of the stomach bacteria may be good for our digestive system but some may cause any serious diseases.  Some stomach bacteria may work harmoniously with our immune system.  There are billions of stomach bacteria which said to be friendly or beneficial bacteria. Additionally these bacteria live in our intestine and multiplied into times to digest food.  So these bacteria are not static. They work with body system and go. These stomach bacteria can get all the necessary conditions in stomach

Not All Stomach Bacteria Are Good

Not all stomach bacteria are good, some of the stomach bacteria enter the body through the mouth, and they can survive in the acidic conditions in the stomach and can cause serious diseases and can be one of the reasons behind the death.

The relation between human and intestinal bacteria is very complex.  These bacteria can grow in warm and moist environment. These bacteria can live off the constant flow of food passing through the gastrointestinal tract. There are several benefits of these stomach bacteria for instance they prevent any disease causing bacteria within intestine. It is also helpful for small intestine for muscular activity. Without bacteria small intestine will get less muscular movement.

Tests For Stomach Bacteria

There are many tests are available from which people can check for the presence of H pylori antibodies, If it indicates positive results than you have definitely come in contact of bacteria at some time in your life.  Blood tests can also be used to check for anemia that can be caused by stomach bleeding. Breath test will help to determine whether you are infected from H pylori bacteria or not.

Stool test checks for stomach bacteria in your body, if a person get positive results than he may be infected from stomach bacteria.  You should check for presence for blood in your stool that also indicates infection caused by stomach bacteria.

There are many different types of bacteria that can be divided into harmful bacteria and helpful bacteria.

Some helpful bacteria are as follows;

Useful Bacteria

Fermentation is necessary to taste cheese or yogurt. Helpful bacteria like brevibacterium give carbon dioxide during the process of fermentation. Helpful bacteria are responsible for the complexity and acidity in beer.

Pseudomonas Syringae is a type of bacterium found in leaves and grass and produces protein for frost formation. Now the protein from this type of bacterium is sold in a brand name to enhance the formation of snow.

Caulobacter Crescentus is another helpful bacterium which has long sticky sugar molecules. They are better than glues and therefore natural and non toxic adhesive are made from these bacteria.

There are billion types of bacteria around us. Most of them are helpful bacteria and they are very important for our survival. Yet there are some few harmful bacteria that cause diseases.

Harmful types of bacteria are as follows;

Streptococcus - Streptococcus bacteria are one of the harmful bacteria that may cause disease in human and animals particularly mammals. They cause some small infections like strep throat and some dreadful diseases like pneumonia. Some harmful streptococci may even cause death. These bacteria are highly contagious and can spread easily through air.

Group A and B bacteria are more harmful streptococcus bacteria than any other bacteria strain. They may cause scarlet fever, rheumatic fever etc. They may also cause problems in female reproductive system. However they are controllable through vaccines and antibiotics.

Yet there are some harmful bacteria that may actually cause gum bleeding and other teeth problems. As they progress rapidly, steps must be taken to prevent them in the early stage itself. However there are some harmful bacteria that are highly resistant to drugs.

Bacteria can be classified into 3 types based on the shape. The rod shaped bacteria, Sphere shaped bacteria and Spiral bacteria are the three types of bacteria. There are some bacteria that are in different shapes and so it is difficult to classify tem according to shape.

Some bacteria require oxygen for their survival while others do not. On the basis of oxygen requirement they are classified as aerobic and anaerobic bacteria.

On the basis of Gram staining method bacteria are classified into two different types. They are Gram positive bacteria and Gram negative bacteria. Bacteria are also classified according to their growth and reproduction. Such classification includes Autotrophic bacteria and heterotrophic bacteria. Autotrophic bacteria take the required carbon from carbon dioxide by itself. Some types of autotrophs will use sunlight to transform carbon dioxide to sugar. While heterotrophic bacteria will take sugar or carbon from the environment they live.

Scientists have classified various types of bacteria according to the phyla. Each phylum then again corresponds to various species of bacteria. The bacteria can be classified according o the environment they live also. Sweet water bacteria, ocean water bacteria are some of the types of bacteria classified according to their environment. Some types of bacteria can survive in extremely hot or cold temperature.