A scientist may be able to see a single bacterium through a microscope. From LearnThat.org.
The cholera bacterium is shaped like a comma with a tail (above). From Wordnik.com. [Nobelprize.org: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1994] Reference
The bacterium is so destructive that it is common to cough up both mucus and blood. From Wordnik.com. [Tuberculosis Vaccine] Reference
When a nonlysogenic bacterium is infected by a temperate phage, it will either undergo lysis or become lysogenic. From Wordnik.com. [André Lwoff - Nobel Lecture] Reference
Bacillus subtilis bacterium, which is found in dirt. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American] Reference
On second thought, a bacterium is a bacterium is a bacterium. From Wordnik.com. [It's ALIVE! - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
But nobody claims that a bacterium was the originator of all life on earth. From Wordnik.com. [A Minimal Genome] Reference
Leprosy is an inflammatory disease caused by a bacterium, which is transmitted by close contact. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Fig. 2A-C, each SERS spectrum representing the bacterium is a mean spectrum averaged from more than 10 samples. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Indeed, the bacterium is the cause of trachoma that is the largest cause of preventable blindness in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Sunil Chacko: Chlamydia, Largest Bacterial Cause of Sexually Transmitted Disease, Insidious Under the Radar Screen] Reference
As the latter, the bacterium is a significant public health concern, as it is capable of causing serious infections. From Wordnik.com. [The evolutionary advantage of spontaneous abortion - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The tetanus bacterium is found in the soil. From Wordnik.com. [Tetanus, Diptheria, Pertussis] Reference
Each individual bacterium is oblong shaped. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-03-01] Reference
All these terms, including the usual one of bacteria, are unsatisfactory; for "bacterium,". From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Each kind of bacterium requires its own special environment to permit it to grow and flourish. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891] Reference
Next, in another series of huge tanks, one kind of bacterium is used to eat up other kinds of dangerous bacteria. From Wordnik.com. [Let It Flow] Reference
(KOL-uh-ruh) An acute disease, and an infectious disease, caused by a kind of bacterium that affects the intestines. From Wordnik.com. [cholera] Reference
A bacterium is a minute micro-organism. From Wordnik.com. [City of Toronto Disposal of Sewage and Water Filtration] Reference
A bacterium is a fairly simple organism. From Wordnik.com. [Resistant TB Gene Decoded in One Week | Impact Lab] Reference
A bacterium is a cell, it’s got a certain structure. From Wordnik.com. [What is Science? « UDreamOfJanie] Reference
The discovery was of a new kind of bacterium that can metabolise arsenic. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The accumulation of mutations doesn’t lead to a new kind of bacterium—it leads to extinction. From Wordnik.com. [On the Other Hand - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
"Each one is designed to fit the mosaic of a particular kind of bacterium, or of a particular protein molecule. From Wordnik.com. [Fantastic Voyage]
We all encounter the bacterium sooner or later, most of us more than once. From Wordnik.com. [Cardiac Contagion] Reference
It hides in its shell until a bacterium wanders by, then pops up and snatches it. From Wordnik.com. [Traveling Sharks] Reference
The same bacterium, Yersinia pestis, is responsible for both pneumonic and bubonic plague. From Wordnik.com. [The Plaque Of Panic] Reference
Spores from the soil-dwelling bacterium Bacillus anthracis are very hardy and very dangerous. From Wordnik.com. [The Terrors Of Toxins] Reference
Salmonella: A common food bacterium, it can be transmitted through meat, eggs, baked goods and fruits. From Wordnik.com. [E. Coli Alert] Reference
Since 1988, researchers have consistently found the bacterium in clogged vessels but not in healthy ones. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Hot Zone] Reference
An estimated 1.7 billion people (including at least 10 million Americans) carry the tuberculosis bacterium. From Wordnik.com. [Tuberculosis: A Deadly Return] Reference
The same goes for Chlamydia pneumoniae, an airborne bacterium known mainly as a cause of respiratory illness. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart Attackers] Reference
Every disease-causing bacterium now has versions that resist at least one of medicine's 100-plus antibiotics. From Wordnik.com. [The End Of Antibiotics] Reference
This poison, which is produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, doesn't cause infection, as anthrax does. From Wordnik.com. [The Terrors Of Toxins] Reference
Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterium known by its nickname "staph," has been the bane of medical experts for decades. From Wordnik.com. [A Deadly Strain Of Staph] Reference
In truth, no one knows whether P. gingivalis can kill you, but the bacterium has been found in diseased carotid arteries. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart Attackers] Reference
The mutants pass on their resistance genes to their progeny-one bacterium can leave 16,777,220 offspring within 24 hours. From Wordnik.com. [The End Of Antibiotics] Reference
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