"clear bacteria" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It refers to the act of removing or getting rid of bacteria. Example: The doctor prescribed a strong antibiotic to clear the bacteria causing the infection in her wound.
Additionally, rOmpF increased the capacity of macrophages to clear bacteria, and it was found for the first time that the anti-rOmpF sera had a significant cross-reaction capacity against Escherichia, Shigella, and Salmonella strains in vitro.
Current thinking is that microorganisms are taking advantage of their host's weakened mucosal layer and inability to clear bacteria from the intestinal walls, which are both symptoms of Crohn's.
Either way, the population of adult flies that survived spaceflight may represent a select population that could efficiently clear bacteria.
PD-1−/− mice have very low autophagy and, therefore, we speculate that due to this defect these mice probably are unable to clear bacteria from the peritoneal macrophages.
However, the failure of endogenous hLYS to effectively clear bacteria during chronic infections indicates that the wild type sequence suffers from some specific dysfunction in the infected lung environment.
The only observed indicator consistent with the higher capacity to clear bacteria after 48 hours was the increase in Imd, which may result in higher AMP production long term.
Although vaccination induced higher titers of B. bronchiseptica-specific antibodies, this serum was less effective than infection-induced serum in clearing bacteria from the lower respiratory tract.
We suggest phagocytic activity of haemocytes and their efficiency in clearing bacteria are reliable parameters to measure, because they have been directly related to immune competency and are consistently depressed by stress.
Worms were scored as paralyzed if they exhibited "halos" of cleared bacteria around their heads or moved their head only or did not move at all when they were gently touched by platinum worm pick [19].
This response is thought to be effective in clearing bacteria from the cerebral microvasculature in the majority of BBB encounters with bacteria.
A role for macrophages in clearing bacteria after parturition or in the expulsion of the conceptus is also a possibility because macrophages accumulate with impending parturition [10], [11].
