The word 'germs' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word 'germs' to refer to the small living organisms that can cause disease. For example, "It is important to remember to wash your hands often to avoid spreading germs."
Eight yielded a sample good enough to enable genetic sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis germs.
Freshers flu is a well-documented side-effect of starting uni, for obvious reasons: eating unhealthily, staying up late, binge drinking, and meeting hundreds of people with germs they're as happy to share as stories of their gap yah in Injah.
Along with a pre-recorded appearance from the cast of the Little Shop Of Horrors musical, which ends with presenter Barney Harwood being eaten by a plant, there's a quiz about germs, a VT in which Radzi Chinyanganya goes diving, and a segment inspecting viewers' sent-in handiwork.
The cornea is starved of oxygen when lenses are in and eyelids closed, making it less effective as a barrier for keeping out germs.
And an attack employing other germs, more contagious and deadly than anthrax, now seems much more of a genuine threat.
The trouble is, she adds, such a baby will not have the contact with germs that are needed to build up a strong immune system.
Fully 76% of kitchen sink cloths are infested with germs.
This is what regulates breathing, digestion, blood-sugar levels, temperature, pancreatic function, immune responses to germs and so on, automatically and without the people concerned being conscious of these processes.
If they could predict how microbes would evolve in response to their drugs, those drugs might be designed to counter the resistance that germs develop, for example, to antibiotics.Unfortunately, a study published in this week's Science suggests that such evolutionary forecasting is not going to be all that easy.
This comes in the form of kokin guzzu, or anti-bacterial goods designed to try to get rid of germs on things with which they come into contact.One bank branch has all of its counters coated in anti-bacterial chemicals (a new meaning for the term money laundering?).
A CLOUD of anthrax germs, designed to inflict a horrible death within five days on anyone who breathes it, is unleashed in the main shopping mall of a small American town.
