Sentence examples for forms of a bacterium from inspiring English sources

Prevnar 13 is designed to fight 13 forms of a bacterium called streptococcus pneumoniae, or pneumococcus.

After the Gulf War, United Nations inspectors learned that Iraq had mastered the techniques for making a powdered form of a bacterium closely related to anthrax.

A mutant form of a bacterium that lives in soil and thrives in low-oxygen environments appears to be a precise and aggressive killer of malignant tumors as well as an energetic activator of the body's immune system, according to new research.

The findings emerged after researchers funded by Nasa discovered a unique form of life in the shape of a bacterium that could apparently use an arsenic-based compound as a vital building block of its DNA – the first organism on Earth capable of living off arsenic.

Doctors knew she was carrying a highly resistant form of a deadly bacterium known as Klebsiella pneumoniae although it didn't make her sick and they placed her in isolation.

Virulent forms of E. coli are of considerable concern as emerging zoonoses (17, 18 ), and benign forms of the bacterium provide a useful system for understanding the transmission dynamics of a range of microbes with similar biologic and epidemiologic characteristics (19, 20 ).

* typical morphology of H. pylori (the other cases showing diverse forms of bacteria) A poor concordance was found between the visual examination of the gastric and duodenal mucosa on endoscopy and the applied non-invasive and invasive tests of H. pylori (accepting C-UBT, histological examination and PCR as the reference tests).

Electron microscopy of both infected amoeba and culture supernatant revealed mature forms of the bacteria with an identical morphology, i.e. crescent and round bodies.

MRSA MRSA is a drug-resistant form of a usually harmless bacterium which can be deadly when it infects wounds.

With dry, powdered anthrax, a main bar to testing is its spore -- a form of the bacterium in which the dormant bug rests inside a shell.

More than 500 million eggs from Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms have been recalled by the companies because they were potentially contaminated with Salmonella Enteritidis, a form of the bacterium that is typically passed from an infected hen to the eggs it lays.