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bacteria

[bak-teer-ee-uh] / bækˈtɪər i ə /
NOUN
microorganisms
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It is a relatively new therapy – not officially recognised by the NHS across the UK – which uses charged gas particles to help kill bacteria on the skin.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

Testing environments need to be treated like biocontainment labs, where a virus or bacteria could otherwise escape into the world, Lohn said.

From Barron's Jul. 24, 2026

The authorities are investigating a number of food-related outbreaks, including several involving cyclospora, a bacteria that causes explosive diarrhea.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

The bacteria makes it harder for the insects to spread the virus, rather than kill them off.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

“I know that’s a real lot of bacteria in one hot sweaty room,” I tell Guillermo.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

Some governments also use Wolbachia, a naturally occurring bacterium found in about half of all insect species, to curb the spread of mosquito-borne diseases like dengue.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

The New York company said in a statement that so far its product had not tested positive for the bacterium Clostridium botulinum.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 14, 2026

Zucchello’s business relied on trade routes spanning from the Black Sea to Crete to Alexandria—the very networks that would spread the plague bacterium.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

According to the researchers, this suggests the kimchi-derived bacterium can continue attaching to nanoplastics even in environments similar to the human digestive tract.

From Science Daily May 18, 2026

Bruno Latour maintained that the fact that the bacterium that causes tuberculosis has been discovered in the lungs of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, Ramses II, did not mean that Ramses died of tuberculosis.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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