Sentence examples for caused by a microbe from inspiring English sources

Or the next plague may be caused by a microbe that, having become resistant to standard antibiotics, spreads widely and rapidly.

Biklé says: "We were so enamoured by what the microbial world had done with the soil in our garden that to find out my cancer was caused by a microbe, the HPV virus [Human papillomavirus], was completely destabilising, not just because it was cancer and it was very threatening, but also this whole duality of the microbial world hit me hard.

This famous 19th-century bacteriologist set a high standard for proving that a disease is caused by a microbe.

A new study gives ammunition to researchers who claim that Crohn's disease, an often devastating inflammation of the gut, is caused by a microbe that commonly infects cattle.

It is caused by a waterborne microbe that can dehydrate and kill a healthy adult in hours by inducing vomiting and diarrhea.

This disease is caused by a filamentous microbe called Phytophthora infestans, which spread from North America to Europe in 1845, leading to the Great Famine in Ireland and to severe crop losses in the rest of Europe.

Chickenpox, despite its name, is not caused by a pox virus; the microbe that causes it belongs to the herpes family.

The rise in allergies and inflammatory diseases may not necessarily be caused by a general lack of microbes in hygienic environments, but rather by a lack of certain organisms that have, over the course of evolution, trained our immune system to be more tolerant.

The symptom is rather unspecific, and is caused by a number of different stimuli, including toxins, microbes, parasites, allergens, and even stress.

As in humans, some of the damage that occurred during the fly immune response was caused by an over-aggressive response rather than by the microbes themselves.

Severe infection in immunocompetent patients caused by this microbe is extremely rare.