bacteria

Plus, an infected deer tick must keep its harpoon-like feeding tube in the bloodstream for 36 to 48 hours to transmit the bacteria that causes Lyme disease.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Retrieved from a location in the North Atlantic Ocean, they are roughly 10 to 20 times bigger than the magnetic particles used by bacteria.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

He goes on to emphasize that what Claude found — a previously uncharacterized enzyme system found in viruses that infect bacteria — isn’t necessarily going to be useful.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

"The bacteria spreads more easily in that group, it's lots of people mixing together, and more independence as people move away from parents."

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Staphylococci bacteria are the other half of the deadly duo of opportunistic bacteria.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

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 team reconstructed 26 genomes of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague, from human remains recovered at 11 archaeological sites in Estonia, Russia, England, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

Instead, the disease appears to have resurfaced in different parts of Europe over hundreds of years, potentially creating several new reservoirs where the bacterium could persist.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

It uses a harmless bacterium to insert DNA into the rootstock exactly where it is needed to give the tree resistance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

In the early 1920s, Griffith, a medical officer at the British Ministry of Health, began to investigate a bacterium named Streptococcus pneumoniae or pneumococcus.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee