bacteria

They can also be difficult to diagnose, due to a lower level of bacteria shown in urine samples.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

The causes of facial and body acne are similar, although skin bacteria sometimes play a larger role in body acne.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

As women have a shorter urethra than men, bacteria are more likely to reach the bladder or kidneys and cause an infection.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

The gut microbiome consists of the enormous community of bacteria and other microorganisms that inhabit the digestive system.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

If sugar was sugar was sugar—if the metabolism of lactose was no different from that of glucose—then one might have expected bacteria fed on the glucose/lactose mix to exhibit the same smooth arc of growth.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Plague is a disease caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium, the same pathogen that killed millions of people in Europe during the Middle Ages.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

The bacterium that causes the plague, Yersinia pestis, found among rodents such as marmots in the area.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

The bacterium Yersinia pestis, which can cause pneumonic and bubonic plagues, has been identified from time to time in Siberia, linked to exposure to vermin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

The bacterium still persists in natural rodent reservoirs in several regions.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

At various places inside the monkey house, they set out patches of paper saturated with spores of a harmless bacterium known as Bacillus subtilis niger.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston