So far this examination was limited to cultivable microorganisms, probably excluding the majority of organisms present.
Observations of nature, however, show that the absolute majority of organisms travel through water using wave motion, paddling or using water jet power.
The removal of water through air drying damages membranes, proteins and nucleic acids and is lethal to the majority of organisms.
Although the majority of organisms isolated were not pathogenic, their presence indicates the potential for transmission of pathogens from laryngoscope handles.
"Microbes represent the vast majority of organisms on earth," said Hans-Peter Klenk, a microbiologist for the German Collection of Micro-organisms and Cell Cultures, a government microbiology research center.
While most of us look at the world and assume that life consists of the plants and animals we're familiar with, Banfield points out that the majority of organisms are actually the bacteria and archaea we rarely consider.
Members of this family have a novel all-α fold and are unrelated to the all-β dUTPases of the majority of organisms including eukaryotes such as humans, bacteria such as Escherichia coli, archaea like Methanococcus jannaschii and animal viruses.
The overwhelming majority of organisms will never fossilize.
The vast majority of organisms that have lived on Earth never fossilized.
However, the majority of organisms which possess the capability to produce ESBLs have also acquired concurrent mechanisms for resistance to TMP/SMX [77].
