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bacterium

/bak-teer-ee-uhm/US // bækˈtɪər i əm //UK // (bækˈtɪərɪəm) //

细菌,菌类,菌体,菌

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : singular of bacteria.

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Examples

  • At first, scientists suspected a virus or bacterium might be making sea stars sick.

  • Scientists suspected that a virus or bacterium might be making sea stars sick.

  • Among those samples, DNA from Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague, was found in two ancient Siberians, the researchers report January 6 in Science Advances.

  • The mechanism the Hsal uses to protect itself from radiation is similar to Deinococcus radiodurans, a bacterium known for its radiation resistance.

  • Perhaps the best-known example occurs when the bacterium Clostridium difficile invades the gut, causing painful and sometimes deadly colitis.

  • No, not Ebola, but rather infection with the dreaded bacterium, Yersinia pestis.

  • Caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, the illness is transmitted by the bite of an infected tick.

  • One type of bacterium is likely very different from its neighbors, and may have equally different effects on the body.

  • Not only did the insertion work, the extra base pair was kept by offspring of the original bacterium.

  • Pertussis, or “whooping cough,” is caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis.

  • It is a plantigrade circumflex vertebrate bacterium that hasnt any wings and is uncertain.

  • Plantigrade circumflex vertebrate bacterium that hasnt any wings and is uncertain.

  • When we have succeeded in isolating a certain kind of bacterium in a given dish, we are said to have a pure culture.

  • But probably each colony arose from a single bacterium which got into the dish when it was exposed to the air.

  • At the same time Prof. Bayley Balfour had examined it and concluded that it was a mixture of a yeast and a bacterium.