Sentence examples for sick bacteria from inspiring English sources

This could select for variants with low fitness defects; resistant, but sick bacteria might be competed out rapidly.

On the other hand, the greater lethality imposed by the higher antibiotic concentration allows the persistence of sick bacteria for a longer time.

Unlike other things you can catch that make you sick, like bacteria, viruses, parasites, or fungi, prions don't have genetic material and aren't really alive.

Although the youngest children and the oldest adults are considered most vulnerable to getting sick from the bacteria and to struggling to recover from its effects, more than 70percentt of those who grew ill in this outbreak were somewhere in between: older than 4 and younger than 65.

My mouth watered for the six different salads at the nearby table — I counted them — couscous with raisins, quinoa salad, fresh arugula and the rest of them, but I knew I wouldn't be able to have any for fear I could get sick from any bacteria that might be in them.

People who have lost their spleen and people who are immunocompromised are more likely to get sick from the bacteria.

If you wash often, you can minimize your chance of getting sick from any bacteria you have picked up.

People don't get sick from acquiring the bacteria — it's already in the gut of some healthy individuals, kept in line by other bacteria.

Overall, at least 2 million people in the US become sick from drug-resistant bacteria, and more than 23,000 of them die from those infections every year, the CDC said.

Epstein consoled Karumanchi by saying that he had fulfilled "Koch's postulates" — a reference to the Nobel laureate Robert Koch, who argued that the cause of a disease could be established by injecting animals with bacteria from sick patients.

We can get very sick from the 'bad' bacteria, and modern medicine has done a wonderful job of protecting us from various diseases that are created by these bacteria," said Raison.