bacteria

A cankering disease, due, it is believed, to the action of certain bacteria, presently seized upon it.

Here, apparently, was the Palaeontological Section, and a very splendid array of fossils it must have been, though the inevitable process of decay that had been staved off for a time, and had, through the extinction of bacteria and fungi, lost ninety-nine hundredths of its force, was nevertheless, with extreme sureness if with extreme slowness at work again upon all its treasures.

For it was these bacteria, and germs, and microbes, and bacilli, cultured in the laboratories of the West, that had come down upon China in the rain of glass.

This little community had returned from its original habits of suburban parasitism to what no doubt had been the normal life of humanity for nearly immemorial years, a life of homely economies in the most intimate, contact with cows and hens and patches of around, a life that breathes and exhales the scent of cows and finds the need for stimulants satisfied by the activity of the bacteria and vermin it engenders.

It's fun to tell people about the billions of bacteria living it up in their yogurt cup.

Components of breast milk are being developed as drugs that fight viruses and bacteria. A particular target is diarrhea, which kills about 2.2 million people every year, mostly children in developing countries.

Researchers in Japan have found a way to use crawling bacteria to power a micromotor.

Antimicrobial Resistance in Bacteria of Animal Origin

These nontherapeutic uses involv2e long-term, low-level dosing that creates an appropriate environment for bacteria to develop antibiotic resistance.

* The skin of the average-size human--which covers an area of 1.7 square meters (2 square yards)--is home to as many bacteria as there are people in the United States.

Category 1: Anyone with a mouth, especially those with teeth or dentures, because of the presence of oral bacteria. Aspiration pneumonia can result when these bacteria enter the airway.