- singular of bacteria.
bacterium
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The bacterium grows in anaerobic environments, meaning places with very little oxygen.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
It is more unusual to see an outbreak like this linked to one specific stain of the bacterium affecting many people at one time.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
And in April, Rickettsia, a rare but deadly tick-borne bacterium, was found in a person living in Sonoma County.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 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
How could heat-killed bacterial debris—no more than a lukewarm soup of microbial chemicals—have transmitted a genetic trait to a live bacterium by mere contact?
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The targets included SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, as well as other widespread viruses and bacteria and targets associated with autoimmune diseases.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
As scientists link oral bacteria to heart disease and cognitive decline, a push is under way to treat the mouth as a source of body-wide inflammation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
But it is unsafe to eat raw poultry because of the food poisoning risk from harmful bacteria.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
"We had to bring together people who understand bacteria, people who understand tumors, and people who understand the immune system to make something like this possible."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
“Their blood is blue, and it can detect really small amounts of bacteria, so scientists use it to test vaccines.”
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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