Sentence examples for sensitive bacteria from inspiring English sources

Taking antibiotics creates "selective pressure" where sensitive bacteria are killed leaving a gap in which any resistant bacteria can flourish.

The antibiotics kill off the sensitive bacteria in people's mouths, intestines and skin, and the bacteria that are naturally resistant to the antibiotics thrive, and eventually predominate.

The magnetosomes are aligned along the axis of the cell and serve to orient the sensitive bacteria.

Laura McMurry and colleagues in Dr. Levy's laboratory have shown that while triclosan wipes out the most sensitive bacteria, it also gives rise to bacteria that resist its action by pumping the chemical out of their cells.

After synthesis, serial twofold dilutions of β-casein 197 were added to select for sensitive bacteria.

When the antibiotic of choice is given it kills the sensitive bacteria but any resistant ones live on.

Therefore, they have a selective advantage over the other more acid-sensitive bacteria.

Two such enzymes found predominantly in air-sensitive bacteria and archaea, superoxide reductase (SOR) and rubrerythrin (Rbr), functioning as a peroxidase (hydrogen peroxide reductase), contain non-heme iron.

The cell-specific bacterial activity was significantly enhanced at high TiO2NP exposure concentrations, indicating the loss of nanoparticle-sensitive bacteria and a subsequent increased activity by tolerant ones.

The researchers concluded that climate-sensitive bacteria may attach to larger organisms, such as zooplankton, and "piggyback" along ocean currents to spread globally.

This trade-off explains why phage-resistant and phage-sensitive bacteria coexist [42].