Sentence examples for disease bacteria from inspiring English sources
In some areas, as many as half of the deer ticks are infected with Borrelia, the Lyme disease bacteria.
His explanation for antiscorbutics no longer made sense, and now there was a new, exciting, modern, scientific explanation for disease: bacteria.
Despite the data, the belief has hung on that Lyme disease bacteria can cause a chronic infection even after treatment.
Last year, the HSE told another IAH laboratory, in Compton, Berkshire, that it had failed to protect staff and visitors from "substances hazardous to health", including the legionnaires' disease bacteria.
Dr. Levi hypothesized that because these small animals are prey, their abundance – and the spread of the Lyme disease bacteria within them – depends on the abundance of their predators.
Dr. Diuk-Wasser said that birds are also major carriers of Lyme disease bacteria and might be even more significant carriers than rodents because of the distances they can easily travel.
In 1976, it took five months to discover the Legionnaire's disease bacterium, and it took about the same length of time in 1993 to isolate the hanta virus, which caused an outbreak of respiratory illness in New Mexico.
This tick (formerly called the deer tick) transmits not only the Lyme disease bacterium, but also the agents that cause babesiosis, anaplasmosis and Powassan viral encephalitis.
By extracting the DNA of the disease bacterium, Yersinia pestis, from the largest teeth in some of the skulls retrieved from the square, the scientists were able to compare the strain of bubonic plague preserved there with that which was recently responsible for killing 60 people in Madagascar.
In contrast, lice spread typhus; mosquitoes carry the viruses that cause yellow fever, dengue, encephalitis and West Nile disease; ticks transmit the Lyme disease bacterium; and fleas can bring the bacterium that causes plague.
However, only a few species of animals have been shown to effectively transmit the Lyme disease bacterium to ticks.
