Sentence examples for normal inhabitant from inspiring English sources
It is caused either by introduction into the skin or by inhalation of Nocardia asteroides, a normal inhabitant of soil and compost heaps.
The bacterium is a normal inhabitant of human skin, Dr. Brueggemann said, residing in follicles all over the body, although most commonly on the face, upper back and chest.
E. coli is a normal inhabitant of the intestinal tract of humans; its presence in water indicates that the water is polluted with intestinal wastes and may contain disease-producing organisms.
The yeast Candida albicans, a normal inhabitant of the human mouth, throat, colon, and reproductive organs, does not cause disease when it is in ecological balance with other microbes of the digestive system.
For example, Faecalibacterium prausnitzii, a normal inhabitant of the human intestinal tract, is found in decreased levels in people with Crohn disease, and Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis, found in the intestinal tracts of ruminants affected by Johne disease, which is similar to Crohn disease in humans, has been isolated from the blood of some patients.
An average-size bacterium such as the rod-shaped Escherichia coli, a normal inhabitant of the intestinal tract of humans and animals is about 2 micrometres (μm; millionths of a metre) long and 0.5 μm in diameter, and the spherical cells of Staphylococcus aureus are up to 1 μm in diameter.
Generic E. coli are normal inhabitants of the lower intestine.
They are normal inhabitants of the human body and may even be essential in keeping the balance among the various microbial flora of the skin.
Shigella, genus of rod-shaped bacteria in the family Enterobacteriaceae, species of which are normal inhabitants of the human intestinal tract and can cause dysentery, or shigellosis.
Instead of attacking and destroying the salmonella, it may kill the normal inhabitants of the bowel and allow the salmonella to flourish and persist in the absence of competition from other microorganisms.
The rod-shaped bacilli usually occur singly, but some strains form long chains, such as rods of the corynebacteria, normal inhabitants of the mouth that are frequently attached to one another at random angles.
