Sentence examples for known strain from inspiring English sources

In 1941, the antibiotic penicillin revolutionized medicine by successfully killing every known strain of Staphylococcus aureus (staph).

An ATCC E. coli 25922 strain was used as a negative control for mannose sensitive haemagglutination assay and a known strain of E. coli repeatedly giving positive was taken as control for the assay [21].

A notable PVL-positive ST8-MRSA-IV is the widely known strain USA300 (also known as WA MRSA-12, Canadian MRSA-10 [28] or Spanish PFGE type A, [34]).

Exact matches with already published sequences were labelled according to the name of the known strain.

B. psittacipulmonis (psitt.a.ci.pul.mon'is named because the type and only known strain was isolated from the lung of a parakeet).

However, in the mixed-strain experiments, the effects on estimated nucleotide diversity of such errors were small in comparison to known strain differences.

The MoistureLoc solution normally kills all known strains of the fungus.

Scientists familiar with the federal investigation also said preliminary tests suggested that the Florida strain was not one of the widely known strains used over the decades to make anthrax weapons.

The bacterial disease was first discovered in Japan 25 years ago and has four known strains with varying levels of virulence.

There had been two known strains — H.T.L.V.-1 and H.T.L.V.-2 — and researchers found evidence of both viruses in the primate blood samples; they also discovered two new viruses, which they named H.T.L.V.-3 and H.T.L.V.-4.

Using the new fingerprint-style method, scientists can compare certain DNA segments isolated from the bacteria to a library of DNA samples from known strains or from other incidents.