bacteria

They include Milly Main, who died at the age of 10 after contracting the stenotrophomonas bacteria while undergoing treatment for leukaemia.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

Scientists had generally assumed that phenols and indoles were produced only by gut bacteria.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026

Gut bacteria create these compounds when they digest the amino acids tyrosine and phenylalanine, but the resulting metabolites can have very different effects on health.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026

The bacteria is linked to sometimes fatal infections, especially in young children, the elderly and people with weakened immunity.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 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

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

This allowed them to identify traces of several pathogens, including Yersinia pestis, the bacterium responsible for plague, and Borrelia recurrentis, which causes louse borne relapsing fever.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 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

We are also learning more about the evolutionary history of this devastating bacterium, which has haunted human societies since the Stone Age.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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