Sentence examples for bacterial invaders from inspiring English sources

Barnett thinks Ramsey's alleged role in the plague was probably just anti-French propaganda, but it illustrates an ongoing fear – the sense of cities as pregnable entities, susceptible to bacterial invaders, to infections that enter through a port and spread quickly through a population that is living at perilously close quarters.

One of our most important lines of defense against bacterial invaders is mucus.

That presumably would help kill off bacterial invaders, but why does it work against viruses?

It was a fast, accurate way to sense and remove bacterial invaders.

Instead, the attackers were macrophages, a more general kind of defensive cell whose jobs include munching bacterial invaders and helping to heal injured tissue.

Researchers analyzed dental plaque from skeletons in a medieval cemetery in Germany, and found that the mouths of these aged humans were home to many of the same bacterial invaders that cause gum disease in the mouths of modern humans.

When faced with foreign cells, these proteins are activated one after the other, in a domino-like effect, eventually forming rings which punch crippling holes in the cell-membranes of the interlopers.Such damage is a good thing in the case of a bacterial invader, but is rather less desirable when it happens to a transplanted organ.

The body responds to this mitochondrial DNA as if it's a bacterial invader.

While it is not very clear in the literature, it would make even greater sense if the viruses infecting the would-be archaeal and Eukarya branches were more closely related than the bacterial invader.

Eradicating the bacterial invader as well as keeping in check the host's immune response over these so-called golden hours of sepsis are therefore believed to be critical issues.

Animals launch direct assaults against bacterial and viral invaders with their immune system.