Sentence examples for bacterium resistant from inspiring English sources

Outbreaks of C. difficile, a bacterium resistant to many antibiotics, have been increasing in the United States since 2001, along with the evolution of more virulent strains.

He outlined several of his own collaborations, including those aimed at devising more precise methods of genome editing, one resulting in 321 changes to the Escherichia coli genome — the largest change in any genome yet — rendering the bacterium resistant to all viruses, even those it had not yet come into contact with.

British researchers said Tuesday that a new bacterium resistant to most antibiotics is becoming more common in India and Pakistan and that it has been identified in 37 people in the U.K., primarily among people who have traveled to that region to receive cheaper medical care.

The only bacterium resistant to the shoot extract was H. influenzae (Table  5).

Capsular polysaccharides are known to render bacterial surfaces hydrophilic and negatively charged, making the bacterium resistant to entrapment in mucus.

The polysaccharide capsule of Streptococcus pneumoniae is the main virulence factor, which makes the bacterium resistant to phagocytosis.

The senator has resigned from the conservative caucus, the chief of staff was sacked, but like some medically-bred super-bacterium, resistant to every political antibiotic in the prime ministerial medicine chest, the infection thrives and spreads.

The gene made the bacteria resistant to the group of antibiotics called carbapenems.

Overuse of these drugs contributes to the development of superbugs — bacteria resistant to all medications.

Biological warfaremongers can, however, make bacteria resistant to antibiotics by standard methods.

Sometimes mutations occur spontaneously that make bacteria resistant to an antibiotic.