Term Name: defense response to bacterium
Synonyms: antibacterial peptide activity, defence response to bacteria, defence response to bacterium, defense response to bacteria, defense response to bacterium, incompatible interaction, resistance response to pathogenic bacteria, resistance response to pathogenic bacterium
Definition: Reactions triggered in response to the presence of a bacterium that act to protect the cell or organism.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0042742]    QuickGO    AmiGO

Relationships
has parts: neutrophil-mediated killing of bacterium peptidoglycan recognition protein signaling pathway
is a type of: defense response to other organism response to bacterium
has subtype: antibacterial humoral response antibacterial innate immune response defense response to Gram-negative bacterium defense response to Gram-positive bacterium induced systemic resistance male-specific defense response to bacterium
inverse capable_of: inflammatory macrophage marginal zone B cell peritoneal macrophage
negatively regulated by: negative regulation of defense response to bacterium
positively regulated by: positive regulation of defense response to bacterium
regulated by: regulation of defense response to bacterium