bacterium
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Earlier research in the series focused mainly on Yersinia pestis, the bacterium responsible for plague.
From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2026
"It is not just the bacterium itself that seems interesting. It is the bacterium in interaction with the virus it carries," he explains.
From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2026
A common gut bacterium found in most healthy individuals.
From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2026
This approach revealed traces of ancient pathogens, including the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis and the organism responsible for louse-borne relapsing fever, Borrelia recurrentis.
From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2026
How might a bacterium even “know,” or sense, that the sugar source had been switched?
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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