bacterium

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By contrast, it takes ingesting thousands of salmonella particles to get sick from that bacterium.

From Los Angeles Times

In response, Italian city states began bringing in grain from the Black Sea region, and those shipments may have carried the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis.

From Science Daily

The disease was caused by a bacterium known as Yersinia pestis spread by wild rodents, such as rats, and fleas.

From BBC

A multinational group of scientists has identified a previously unknown tubular structure within Profftella, a symbiotic bacterium linked to a major pest that affects citrus crops around the world.

From Science Daily

These three compounds come from a blood-dwelling bacterium and were shown to reduce both cellular damage and inflammation in laboratory-grown human skin cells.

From Science Daily