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  • "There's definitely a suite of bacteria there, but I don't think that's the central problem."   (source)
  • And in the sixty million years since dinosaurs disappeared, apparently the bacteria that specialize in breaking down their feces disappeared, too.†   (source)
  • you may have hit on the supreme way to kill pathogenic bacteria.   (source)
  • Sore throats this severe were usually caused by strep bacteria or the mono virus, she said.†   (source)
  • The Tug, Dad said, had the highest level of fecal bacteria of any river in North America.†   (source)
  • Did I worry about ingesting some horrid bacteria?†   (source)
  • It had been a particularly virulent bacterial strain.†   (source)
  • It might explode and contaminate the other eggs with bacteria.†   (source)
  • I'd imagine that the bacteria level's pretty high.†   (source)
  • Even the bacteria, when they settle in his ulcers, become "indolent."†   (source)
  • "But he looks SO ...', "That's what happens when you spend your golden years in a place where oxygen and bacteria can't exist, like the underside of our bog.†   (source)
  • Every touchable surface was a disease waiting to happen, every speck of dust an allergen poised to swell your nose and clog your ducts, every toothbrush bristle a bacterial playground.†   (source)
  • I wish to be totally clean, germless, without bacteria, like the surface of the moon.†   (source)
  • They learned that there was nothing so loathsome as a wisp of blanket fluff hiding under a bed, concealing within its form a battalion, a whole division, of bacteria.†   (source)
  • It turned noses into fountains, lungs into bacterial sponges.†   (source)
  • One day in a microbiology class the professor instructed the students to place a specimen on the agar in order to see if bacteria would grow in the petri dish.†   (source)
  • Thus, on Heaven's Gate, as I dredged bottom scum from the slop canals under the red gaze of Vega Primo or crawled on hands and knees through stalactites and stalagmites of rebreather bacteria in labyrinthine lungpipes, I became a poet.†   (source)
  • Chicago's water teemed with bacteria, thanks mainly to the Chicago River.†   (source)
  • Bacteria and a host of other microorganisms could find their way into cultures from people's unwashed hands, their breath, and dust particles floating through the air, and destroy them.†   (source)
  • He pounded his chest, causing his large belly to ripple and no doubt drowning entire nations of bacteria in his gut.†   (source)
  • The worms and bacteria had eaten the rest.†   (source)
  • I spoke privately to my family on the phone and refrained from mentioning to Mom that I had now contracted some kind of Afghan mountain bacteria that attacked my stomach like Montezuma's revenge gets you in Mexico.†   (source)
  • Your immune system hasn't been exposed to a lifetime of common viruses and bacterial infections.†   (source)
  • That was a piece of cake next to guns and gangs and sexually transmitted diseases, not to mention the things parents had to be concerned about: pedophiles on the Web, designer drugs like ecstasy, school shootings, anorexia, bulimia, self-mutilation, the ozone layer, superbacteria.†   (source)
  • She touched the wings of flies, the souls of invisible bacteria, all specks, mites, and mica-snowings of sunlight filtrated with motion and much more hidden emotion.†   (source)
  • Because they don't work-the bacteria are smarter than your medicines.†   (source)
  • At any one time, 11 percent of Africans have untreated bacterial genital infections, and these sores allow for easy transmission of the virus.†   (source)
  • The artificial pneumothorax had introduced other bacteria into the pleural space around the lung.†   (source)
  • I learned that in making their experiments scientists will take some group, bacteria, mice, people, and subject that group to certain conditions.†   (source)
  • And then, just to make sure I'd live through the war, I'd like, I don't know, make myself immune to every virus and bacteria on Earth.†   (source)
  • AMRIID barely survived the flares, but they're confident that the underground containment system for the most dangerous viruses, bacteria and biological weapons didn't fail.†   (source)
  • And now I'm crying harder, because I haven't unpacked my towels, and wet clothing reminds me of those stupid water rides Bridgette and Matt used to drag me on at Six Flags where the water is the wrong color and it smells like paint and it has a billion trillion bacterial microbes in it.†   (source)
  • Body lice and bacteria and fleas were dying by the billions.†   (source)
  • And you separate it and skim it and nurse it with bacteria.†   (source)
  • The patient becomes a site of rapid bacterial evolution, with drugs supplying the selective pressure.†   (source)
  • You have to help me rid the world of this disease, as invisible and deadly as bacteria.†   (source)
  • The doctors say I won't die from AIDS—I'll die from pneumonia or TB or a bacterial infection in the brain; but if you ask me, that's just semantics.†   (source)
  • Yersinia pestis—Bubonic plague, Black death, pest—is an overwhelming infection by bacteria that produce potent toxins.†   (source)
  • Cold War: Both the United States and the Soviet Union bioweapons programs reach new heights, exploring the use of hundreds of bacteria, viruses, and biological toxins.†   (source)
  • Rats infected with deadly bacteria were systematically released among the populace, making Japan the only combatant to use biological warfare in World War II.†   (source)
  • The tagline read, "A smile should be more than a memory," and the text expressed unemotional information about a "bacteria called plaque that grows and thrives below the gumline," but Mortenson was far beyond language.†   (source)
  • The tape kept bacteria out and blood in.†   (source)
  • They reproduce by fission ....like all bacteria.†   (source)
  • The company even undertook to carry samples of highly contagious bacteria and viruses between cooperating research laboratories in both the public and the military sectors.†   (source)
  • Each time you reheat it, you're killing good bacteria, which then can't keep the bad bacteria in check.†   (source)
  • Couldn't tell which was more disgusting, but I was pretty sure that the biology and chemistry teachers never needed to pay for mold or bacteria kits again.†   (source)
  • It was only in August 1864, when a bacterial infection known as erysipelas sidelined him from the stage, that Booth began using his downtime to recruit a gang that would help him kidnap Lincoln.†   (source)
  • "Lou said, "Pasteurization is named after Louis Pasteur, the scientist who discovered a process that kills bacteria and makes milk safe to drink."†   (source)
  • I remembered the room number from Mrs. Hickey, which was easy for me to note because it was also the name of an anti-bacterial treatment we often used during the war, a solution of Salvarsan that was known as "606," the number of its compound denotation.†   (source)
  • Mother's cooking was with rare exceptions poor, that good unpasteurized milk touched only by flies and bits of manure crawled with bacteria, the healthy old-time life was riddled with aches, sudden death from unknown causes, and that sweet local speech I mourn was the child of illiteracy and ignorance.†   (source)
  • He was up very early these days, he had explained, leaving for his laboratory at Pfizer because of some very important bacterial cultures that needed his observation.†   (source)
  • And the droppings of compys are readily broken down by contemporary bacteria.†   (source)
  • In 1987, he convinced a disgruntled geneticist to quit Cetus for Biosyn, and take five strains of engineered bacteria with her.†   (source)
  • The first bacteria.†   (source)
  • Dodgson wanted more than bacterial DNA; he wanted frozen embryos, and he knew InGen guarded its embryos with the most elaborate security measures.†   (source)
    bacterial = relating to microorganisms (living creatures so small it takes a microscope to see them)
  • partially eaten animal procedures performed: X ray, microscopic, immunological RTX for viral, parasitic, bacterial disease.†   (source)
  • Before lunchtime, the lab had its answer: the lizard blood showed no significant reactivity to any viral or bacterial antigen.†   (source)
  • Thinking that he might have some kind of bacterial infection, they gave him injections of antibiotics, but the antibiotics had no effect on his illness.†   (source)
  • Most children of Demeter could do little more than make crops grow and keep bacterial fungi at bay.†   (source)
  • The feedlots are also breeding grounds for new and deadly bacteria.†   (source)
  • Bacteria from further underground where it is warmer breed upward to replace the dead ones.†   (source)
  • From the bacteria in the sink to the fruit fly circling the bowl of bananas.†   (source)
  • We also try to combat parasites in our own bodies in the form of bacteria.†   (source)
  • We were examined for "flesh-eating bacteria."†   (source)
  • Actually, the bacteria release toxins that destroy skin and muscle rather than eating them.†   (source)
  • If I get rid of all the oxygen, the bacteria will die.†   (source)
  • Over time the acids eat away at the rumen wall, allowing bacteria to enter the animal's bloodstream.†   (source)
  • The tests showed that Polyface hens have a much lower bacteria count than supermarket chickens.†   (source)
  • Time to start getting the bacteria to work on these minerals.†   (source)
  • In most big plants expensive machinery is used to remove or kill the bacteria on the meat.†   (source)
  • There are dozens of species of bacteria living in Earth soil, and they're critical to plant growth.†   (source)
  • Not to mention the bacteria that has to live in the dirt first.†   (source)
  • I guess we should include the bacteria in that partnership, also.†   (source)
  • Not even the bacteria in the soil can survive a catastrophe like that.†   (source)
  • Raw fish can contain bacteria, and wasabi kills bacteria.†   (source)
  • That leaves a little in the air for the bacteria to breathe, but not enough to maintain a fire.†   (source)
  • They might come from a bacteria or some other organism.†   (source)
  • Any bacteria planning to rot my taters will die screaming.†   (source)
  • Inside that tank lives a type of bacteria that dines on grass.†   (source)
  • The problem is that in response to antibiotics, bacteria can mutate or change.†   (source)
  • If you're wondering how bacteria on Earth survive longer periods of cold, the answer is they don't.†   (source)
  • Incredibly, the USDA rules don't set a limit for the amount of bacteria allowed in our meat.†   (source)
  • Amazingly, some of the bacteria survived.†   (source)
  • With hundreds of millions of bacteria, it only takes one survivor to stave off extinction.†   (source)
  • It kills off the nitrogen-fixing bacteria that make the soil fertile.†   (source)
  • Remember, there are bacteria in the animal's rumen and they produce a lot of gas.†   (source)
  • The dirt is only viable soil because of the bacteria growing in it.†   (source)
  • It is also possible that the fungus gives the tree protection from bacteria or other fungi.†   (source)
  • Healthy, active bacteria doing their thing!†   (source)
  • They'll spread out and breed like ...well, like a bacterial infection.†   (source)
  • Some of these bacteria are finding their way into our food.†   (source)
  • We wear these oxygen helmets so we can't introduce our bacteria into an ancient atmosphere.†   (source)
  • the damage from bacterial meningitis is ultimately due to the host inflammatory response.†   (source)
  • Putting any antiseptic on the wound will kill the bacteria and starve it.†   (source)
  • With every passing minute, bacteria grows more firmly attached and difficult to kill.†   (source)
  • He knew that a variety of bacteria had effects on blood.†   (source)
  • What if there are bacterial microbes in the water?†   (source)
  • The smell was alive: bacteria, fungus, and algae, compounds that made and sustained life.†   (source)
  • The carpets at the Waldorf were thick and lush, nesting grounds for bacteria of every sort.†   (source)
  • Those Koch bacteria need their oxygen to thrive, and we won't give it to them, will we?†   (source)
  • In that case, bacteria could spread back through the tunnel to the outside.†   (source)
  • Metchnikoff was hard going, but Thomas liked the drawings of white cells eating bacteria.†   (source)
  • Presumably it carries some of the bacteria with it.†   (source)
  • He thought that a wild strain of bacteria had invaded the cell culture.†   (source)
  • And any antibiotic will kill the bacteria.†   (source)
  • These manage to dampen the exuberant growth of bacteria.†   (source)
  • They used to do that all the time in hospital labs with bacteria.†   (source)
  • Which appears to be feasting on the bacteria colony in the lesion.†   (source)
  • It had to do with theories of accommodation and mutual adaptation between bacteria and man.†   (source)
  • "Most bacteria," Burton observed, "simply can't live within a man long enough to harm him.†   (source)
  • And, oddly enough, Kalocin also killed bacteria.†   (source)
  • The bacteria would head up into the air, and slowly ascend until they were literally in space.†   (source)
  • His field had been the effects of bacteria on human tissues.†   (source)
  • A bacteria that killed its host was also poorly adapted.†   (source)
  • Karp, upon breaking open his meteorites, was able to isolate bacteria.†   (source)
  • Man's body is as hostile as Antarctica to most bacteria.†   (source)
  • Everything he owned, anything he touched, every breath he breathed, was drenched in bacteria.†   (source)
  • Biosatellite II contained, among other things, several species of bacteria.†   (source)
  • This was because the process of adaptation—of fitting man to bacteria— was complex.†   (source)
  • So it was possible that bacteria could alter blood.†   (source)
  • This whole idea of mutated bacteria seemed farfetched and unlikely to the Wildfire people.†   (source)
  • Both man and bacteria had gotten used to each other, had developed a kind of mutual immunity.†   (source)
  • It was later reported that the bacteria had reproduced at a rate twenty to thirty times normal.†   (source)
  • A man easily killed by bacteria was poorly adapted; he didn't live long enough to reproduce.†   (source)
  • Most people, when they thought of bacteria, thought of diseases.†   (source)
  • There are millions of species of bacteria, and thousands of species of insects.†   (source)
  • Nothing that might provide a bacterial growth medium.†   (source)
  • Subsections bacterial, viral, parasitic, other.†   (source)
  • In 1955, he was the first to use the technique of multiplicative counts for bacterial colonies.†   (source)
  • You think that's a single bacterial colony?†   (source)
  • The one that replaced plaque bacteria with friendly ones that filled the same ecological niche, namely your mouth?†   (source)
  • Chakrabarty's lawyers argued that since normal bacteria don't consume oil, Chakrabarty's bacteria weren't naturally occurring—they only existed because he'd altered them using "human ingenuity."†   (source)
  • He gets a bit of bacteria in his lungs, his cough mechanism doesn't work like it should, he goes down pretty fast.†   (source)
  • Except for the bacteria and worms that might still be alive in the remains of the animals, there was no other life left on the lifeboat but Richard Parker and me.†   (source)
  • Gods only know what kind of bacteria was on Tiny's shoestring, and you donating blood to Blitz's arts and crafts project didn't help.†   (source)
  • By now the new science of bacteriology, pioneered by Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur, had convinced most public health officials that contaminated drinking water caused the spread of cholera and other bacterial diseases.†   (source)
  • He got himself a better DVD player, a gym suit that cleaned itself overnight due to sweat-eating bacteria, a shirt that displayed e-mail on its sleeve while giving him a little nudge every time he had a message, shoes that changed colour to match his outfits, a talking toaster.†   (source)
  • Their mission was to establish a nonprofit federal cell bank at the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), which had been distributing and monitoring the purity of bacteria, fungi, yeast, and viruses since 1925, but never cultured cells.†   (source)
  • Regular soil is a crazy mix of everything from fine rock fragments to water, air, insects, and even bacteria and fungi.†   (source)
  • However, as we continue to administer penicillin, we are making certain bacteria resistant, thereby cultivating a group of bacteria that is much harder to combat than it was before.†   (source)
  • They did that because, despite being cancerous, HeLa still shared many basic characteristics with normal cells: They produced proteins and communicated with one another like normal cells, they divided and generated energy, they expressed genes and regulated them, and they were susceptible to infections, which made them an optimal tool for synthesizing and studying any number of things in culture, including bacteria, hormones, proteins, and especially viruses.†   (source)
  • Her eyes glazed over when Willow spoke about new drug-resistant bacteria, but she got the gist of the whole thing.†   (source)
  • With cuts and bruises covering our bodies from head to toe, we were meals on wheels for the killer bacteria.†   (source)
  • Scientists knew they had to keep their cultures free from bacterial and viral contamination, and they knew it was possible for cells to contaminate one another if they got mixed up in culture.†   (source)
  • At that point, the ATCC's collection had grown to dozens of different types of cells, all guaranteed to be free from viral and bacterial contamination, and tested to ensure that they hadn't been contaminated with cells from another species.†   (source)
  • Initially the committee could only test samples for viral and bacterial contamination, but soon a few of its members developed a test for cross-species contamination, so they could determine whether cultures labeled as being from one animal type were actually from another.†   (source)
  • Adding it to water and active bacteria would quickly get it inundated, replacing any population killed by the Toilet of Doom.†   (source)
  • The bison (with the help of bacteria) ate the grass and in return planted it, fertilized it, and defended its territory.†   (source)
  • Once the temperature got to 1°C, I waited another hour, just to make sure the bacteria in the dirt got the memo that it was time to take it slow.†   (source)
  • Instead of toxic pesticides, crops are sprayed with natural substances, like BT, a pesticide made from a common soil bacteria.†   (source)
  • Soil bacteria are used to winters.†   (source)
  • The bacteria break down the cell walls of the grass and allow the cows to get at the protein and carbohydrates within.†   (source)
  • In fact, the rules assume that there will be bacteria in the meat, because in a giant slaughterhouse, there's no way to avoid it.†   (source)
  • My guess is pockets of ice formed around some of the bacteria, leaving a bubble of survivable pressure inside, and the cold wasn't quite enough to kill them.†   (source)
  • Then the bacteria, fungi, and earthworms will get to work breaking the old roots down into rich brown humus.†   (source)
  • That's the bacteria at work!†   (source)
  • So is the soil bacteria.†   (source)
  • The people who developed the custom of eating sushi with wasabi didn't even know there was such a thing as bacteria.†   (source)
  • This kills any harmful bacteria and after a few weeks the rich, cakey compost is ready to be spread on the fields.†   (source)
  • Get to work, bacteria.†   (source)
  • In the laboratory where he'd first seen bacteria swimming in a petri dish, there were no microscopes anymore — all stolen, the custodians said.†   (source)
  • There was no blood, but in two days the bacteria soaked in and the arm turned yellow, so they bundled him up and called in a dustoff, and Vaught left the war.†   (source)
  • I will have a positive attitude, take care of myself, I'll feed myself enzymes, and friendly bacteria.†   (source)
  • In the other direction, Jotunheim spread out like an electron microscope landscape—impossibly jagged peaks, crystalline cliffs, ravines filled with ovoid clouds like floating bacteria.†   (source)
  • I look at slides, planaria worms in section with their triangular heads and cross-eyes, bacteria colored with vivid dyes, hot pinks, violent purples, radiant blues.†   (source)
  • It's a bacterial infection," Ian said.†   (source)
  • Within a day or two, vast numbers of bacteria find their way into the blood stream, resulting in fever as high as io6 degrees F, hemorrhage, and thrombosis.†   (source)
  • The body has to stay right here where it would have died originally, so the insects, birds, and bacteria can get at it, as they were intended to.†   (source)
  • Call it hormones, an early-stage bacterial zombie infection, or a very pleasant dream I was experiencing; I didn't care.†   (source)
  • Lucky, lucky me, I get to be a guinea pig for some of the pharmaceutical industry's more than 40 new drugs that are being tested against the viruses, bacteria and other microscopic invaders common among the UNCHOSEN FEW OF US.†   (source)
  • In the end he fixed the fabric very loosely around her head, mostly so that the wound would not be exposed to bacteria or dirt.†   (source)
  • She multiplies on the walls like bacteria, standing, sitting, flying, with clothes, without clothes, following me around with her many eyes like those 3-D postcards of Jesus you can get in the cheesier corner stores.†   (source)
  • If you knew anything about modern war, you knew that weapons utilizing pathogenic bacteria could be every bit as destructive as megaton bombs.†   (source)
  • A person with active tb of the lungs harbors hundreds of millions of bacteria, enough to ensure that a small number will be mutants impervious to anti-tb drugs.†   (source)
  • When used properly, steam pasteurization cabinets can kill off most of the E. coli 0157:H7 and reduce the amount of bacteria on the meat's surface by as much as 90 percent.†   (source)
  • All sorts of creams, a whole sack of them: "This one, it replenishes the facial oils," she'd say, and then she would explain how, after replenishing the oils, it helped close the pores to keep out bacteria.†   (source)
  • Instead, they could test for other bacteria as a broad measure of fecal contamination levels; the results of those tests would not have to be revealed to the government; and meat containing whatever organisms the tests found could still be sold to the public.†   (source)
  • A white room manned by white-clad technicians, preferably white themselves, who would work in an environment completely free of contaminants, dust, bacteria and so on, with big white lights shining down, where Edgar himself might like to spend time when he was feeling vulnerable to the forces around him.†   (source)
  • And when they set up clinics to treat those two diseases, people would come to them with other ailments, with broken legs and machete wounds, with typhoid and bacterial meningitis.†   (source)
  • A series of tests conducted by Charles Gerba, a microbiologist at the University of Arizona, discovered far more fecal bacteria in the average American kitchen sink than on the average American toilet seat.†   (source)
  • It used to be standard procedure to sniff cultures in a lab —that was how you learned what bacteria smelled like, how you learned that some kinds smell like Welch's grape juice.†   (source)
  • It does gross damage to the affected tissue, the bacteria then have a residence, and it then feasts upon the bacteria.†   (source)
  • According to Dr. Neal D. Bernard, who heads the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, chicken manure may contain dangerous bacteria such as Salmonella and Campylobacter, parasites such as tapeworms and Giardia lamblia, antibiotic residues, arsenic, and heavy metals.†   (source)
  • The wild bacteria consume the cell culture, eat it up, and make a variety of different smells in the air while they're growing, whereas viruses kill cells without releasing an odor.†   (source)
  • According to Dr. Russell Cross, head of the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service, "The presence of bacteria in raw meat, including E. coli 0157:H7, although undesirable, is unavoidable, and not cause for condemnation of the product."†   (source)
  • Beginning with the Second World War, Army labs at Fort Detrick performed research into offensive biological weapons—the Army was developing strains of lethal bacteria and viruses that could be loaded into bombs and dropped on an enemy.†   (source)
  • Works most of the time but requires reapplication since it doesn't always kill the parasite, just the bacteria culture.†   (source)
  • Strict regulations cover every aspect of meat production, prohibiting the inclusion of animal wastes in feed, banning the use of hormones as growth stimulants, limiting the stress that cattle endure during transport (and thereby reducing the amount of bacteria shed in their stool), and confiscating tainted meat.†   (source)
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