bacteria

The fever is not harmful, but it can make babies feel crummy as their body is building up antibodies against viruses and bacteria.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

Only male mosquitoes – infected with the naturally occurring bacteria Wolbachia – are released.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

But plaque can shed bacteria or bacterial products into the bloodstream, says Dr. George Hajishengallis, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s dental school specializing in microbiology and immunology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 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

I thought about how the smell of your sweat isn’t from sweat itself, but from the bacteria that eat it.

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green

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

Infant botulism happens when swallowed spores from the bacterium infect a baby’s large intestine and make a toxin in it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026

Only two decades ago, it was widely doubted by specialists that the Black Death was caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, the agent of the bubonic plague.

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

Grown on either sugar alone, the bacterium begins to divide rapidly, doubling in number every twenty minutes or so.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee