Sentence examples for clusters of bacteria from inspiring English sources

The protruded topographical features act as physical barriers to inhibit the expansion of small clusters of bacteria residing in surface cavities, physically disrupting further colonization and subsequent biofilm formation (Chung et al. [2007]).

Endocarditis (an infection of the heart valves which spreads small clusters of bacteria through the bloodstream) may cause aseptic meningitis.

Individual single bacteria or clusters of bacteria could be easily identified under this microscope system.

The bacilli are present extracellularly either as small clusters of bacteria or as single cells (Fig. 5F).

The SERS spectra obtained from different clusters of bacteria on the same substrate and different bacteria on substrates of different lots are superimposed in Fig. 1B and 1C, respectively.

Cells cultured with Mp showed large clusters of the microbe in phagocytic vacuoles (Figure 5A, upper arrow) as well as clusters of bacteria apparently in the early phases of cellular uptake (Figure 5A, lower arrow).

UPGMA was reported to produce adequate results for genome-based clustering of bacteria on the subspecies level (46).

This cluster of bacteria contains several strains that are able to grow under saline conditions and in biofilms (8, 9 ).

The inclusion of the parasites M. tuberculosis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the cluster of bacteria with large genomes probably reflects the recent origin of parasitism in these lineages.

For further experiments, we selected strain E11 because this isolate caused highly reproducible clustering of bacteria, at inocula ranging from 50 to 200 colony forming units (CFUs) (Fig. 1B).

To be specific, the ribosomal genes of G-plasma often have a close relationship with those of L. ferrodiazotrophum and L. rubarum instead of other plasma species, and they are placed in a cluster of bacteria rather than archaea in the gene tree.