bacterium

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Flea-borne typhus is caused by the bacterium Rickettsia typhi.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

So a lot of the focus is on changes to the bacterium and whether people have less immunity.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

Does the explanation for its scale and speed lie solely in the bacterium itself or did other factors play a role?

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

In animal models of human breast cancer, the presence of this bacterium sped up tumor growth and increased the spread of cancer cells from the breast to the lungs.

From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 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