There are fourteen different capsule types for bacteria. Some  examples are: Bacillus megaterium, Streptococcus pyogenes,  Streptococcus pneumoniae, and Streptococcus agalacâ¦tiae.
chloride shift. chloride shift in Medicine. chloride shift n. The movement of chloride ions from the plasma into red blood cells as a result of the transfer of carbon dioxide from tissues to the plasma, a process that serves to maintain blood pH. Discover our greatest slideshows.
[shift] a change or deviation. antigenic shift a sudden, major change in the antigenicity of a virus, seen especially in influenza viruses, resulting from the recombination of the genomes of two different strains; it is associated with pandemics because hosts do not have immunity to the new strain. See also antigenic drift.