Pneumococcal pneumonia, caused when the bacterium streptococcus pneumoniae infects the lungs, is the most common disease caused by this bacterium in adults.
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Tiny rings of DNA known as plasmids can contain genes that make bacteria impervious to antibiotics, and these plasmids can move from bacterium to bacterium.
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The culprit, a spiral bacterium, was eventually named after Willy Burgdorfer, the scientist who linked the deer tick and the bacterium it carries to human victims.
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Mice so infected will survive subsequent exposure to otherwise-lethal doses of Listeria monocytogenes (a soil- and food-borne bacterium) and Yersinia pestis (the bacterium that causes plague).
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In even the simplest bacterium there are proteins with jobs that scientists cannot identify—but which the bacterium clearly considers vital, since without the genes for those proteins it dies.
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So is the range of the bacterium that causes cholera.
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Subsequently, the bacterium causing the illness was named Legionella pneumophila.
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Plague is a disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.
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That would tell the bacterium which direction to travel in.
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In addition, the bacterium cannot be cultured in a lab.
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The bacterium can't survive without the carbohydrates it depends on.
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Prometheoarchaeum was found to be reliant on its companion bacterium.
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A destructive bacterium took root in one of his eyes.
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"However, a bacterium that is related to the Lyme disease-causing bacterium has been found in these ticks in Asia, so it is hypothetically possible," Pritt, who wasn't involved in the study, said by email.
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So what exactly is this bacterium, and how common are infections?
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That's much more than a slime mold, say, or a bacterium.
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This helps the bacterium recognize viral infections when they occur again.
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A common cause of modern styes is the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus.
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Collectively, the atoms weigh about a thousandth of a single bacterium.
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Tests of the product came up positive for salmonella anatum bacterium.
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The bacterium was not found on any surfaces, Dr. Shelly said.
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The bacterium is resistant to extreme hot and extreme cold situations.
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Both types of plague are caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium.
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Since chancroid is caused by a bacterium, antibiotics do the trick.
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MG is a bacterium that was first identified in the early 1980s.
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Lugdunin is produced by the nostril-dwelling bacterium Staphylococcus lugdunensis (S. lugdunensis).
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The Hib bacterium alone, for example, kills about 350,000 children a year.
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Amid this plastic wasteland, a new bacterium species, Ideonella sakaiensis, took root.
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When they are done, they burst out of the bacterium, destroying it.
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Or perhaps it was a relative of the bacterium that causes tuberculosis.
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The tests found a bacterium, Acinetobacter baumannii, resistant to most standard antibiotics.
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Listeriosis is caused by a bacterium found in soil, water and vegetation.
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They then inserted into their bacterium a gene (made from the four standard bases) that encodes a transport protein (found in Phaeodactylum tricornutum, an alga), which allows the bacterium to ship the new bases across its cell wall.
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A 1,400% increase means that if there was even just one bacterium on the cake at first, there are 1,400 bacteria on it after someone blows out the candles — and you know there's never just one bacterium on anything.
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C. diff is a bacterium that causes diarrhea and inflammation of the colon.
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They have never seen a bacterium before, they have nothing growing inside them.
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PETase is secreted by a plastic-munching bacterium called Ideonella sakaiensis 201-F6.
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Listeria infection is caused by eating food tainted with the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes.
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When a bacterium is killed by a viral infection, its cell wall explodes.
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As a result, the bacterium cannot easily jump from one host to another.
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Electrons could flow from the bacterium down the wire to the receptive rust.
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The sexually transmitted disease is caused by infection with the bacterium Treponema pallidum.
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This bacterium lives in the soil just about everywhere yet rarely causes disease.
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Her winning word was staphylococci, the plural of staphylococcus, a kind of bacterium.
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Research suggests this bacterium and others may be spreading because of climate change.
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Once the bacterium reached the rats of the Roman Empire, it was mayhem.
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It could have been these migrants who brought the hybridized ulcer bacterium to Europe.
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Listeria monocytogenes is a hardy bacterium that is resistant to extreme hot and cold.
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Copeland was infected by Aeromonas hydrophila, a bacterium found in fresh or brackish water.
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Cholera is caused by ingesting food or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.
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Some mosquitoes, like Aedes albopictus, are prone to infection by a bacterium called Wolbachia.
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It contains a bacterium called Bacillus thuringiensis, or Bt, that wards off insect larvae.
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Rocky Mountain spotted fever is spread by ticks that carry the bacterium Rickettsia rickettsii.
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The bacterium is named after American bacteriologist Elizabeth King, who discovered it in 1959.
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A newly-discovered bacterium that feeds on plastic could help develop new recycling methods.
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Syphilis starts with a painless sore that erupts wherever the bacterium invaded the body.
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For tubeworms, the cue comes from Pseudoalteromonas luteoviolacea, a bacterium abundant on marine surfaces.
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So far, none of the Becton Dickinson products have tested positive for the bacterium.
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Authorities still haven't determined exactly how the bacterium was introduced, but it spread quickly.
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Any given bacterium likely has a whole army of phage that can target it.
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"For an individual bacterium, I don't think gravity probably makes any difference," Coil said.
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The dipstick test picks up lipoarabinomannan, a component of the TB bacterium, in urine.
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The bacterium also can be passed from mother to child during pregnancy or birth.
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But even when antibiotic treatment has eliminated the bacterium, stomach cancer may still arise.
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Dr. German and his colleagues learned about the missing bacterium by studying breast milk.
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What can new mothers do to ensure that their babies have this beneficial bacterium?
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But they had merely recognized a bacterium that invades lungs already weakened from influenza.
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One bacterium that attacks those with immune deficiencies is food-borne and called listeria.
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The bacterium — Pseudomonas aeruginosa — is very common, likes moist environments and grows in water.
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The bacterium tends to strike just after you've taken antibiotics to treat something else.
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Bezos froze, as if worried that the smallest bacterium of controversy might prove contagious.
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Unusual spikes in temperature and more wet weather form ideal conditions for the bacterium.
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In 2010 Craig Venter and his colleagues recreated the genome of a simple bacterium.
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This bacterium is pathogenic -- meaning that it is infectious to humans, causing the illness listeriosis.
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More than 2565 billion years ago, an ancient bacterium snuggled inside a fellow simple cell.
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Long before these episodes, however, the bacterium had already made its mark on human communities.
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Donovanosis, also known as granuloma inguinale, is an infection caused by the bacterium Klebsiella granulomatis.
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Such weak connections were found in animals that had not been exposed to the bacterium.
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Gonorrhea is caused by the Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacterium, and it infects both men and women.
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A BACTERIUM called Salmonella typhi travels from host to host in contaminated food and water.
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Take four litres of culture containing E. coli (a gut bacterium favoured by genetic engineers).
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Listeriosis is a condition that develops from eating foods contaminated with the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes.
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But because it is a bacterium, this simplest-possible eye is also an entire organism.
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They are like genetic mug shots, telling the bacterium which bad guys to watch for.
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The antelopes had succumbed to a bacterium called Pasteurella multocida, which lives in their tonsils.
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The man tested positive for Vibrio vulnificus, a bacterium commonly found in coastal ocean water.
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By 1975, it was possible to put DNA from one virus into an unrelated bacterium.
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In contrast, a bacteriophage—basically a "bacteria eater"—is a virus that infects a bacterium.
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Of particular concern, he said, is the bacterium that causes listeriosis, a potentially fatal infection.
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A bacterium had sent bits of its DNA into the nuclear genomes of infected plants.
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The stuff inside the macrophages was a strange bacterium: She had something called Whipple's disease.
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But the disease, caused by a bacterium in contaminated water, has spread rapidly since April.
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Meningococcal disease Meningococcal disease is caused by the bacterium Neisseria meningitidis, also known as meningococcus.
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He would rewrite the DNA of the mice to become resistant to the Lyme bacterium.
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It's caused not by a virus or bacterium, but a deformed protein called a prion.
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Trade ships from Asia brought rats infested with Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague.
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Her diagnosis: haemophilus influenzae type B meningitis, a vaccine-preventable illness caused by a bacterium.
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Tetanus is a disease of the nerves and muscles caused by the bacterium Clostridium tetani.
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A single organism — a single roach, a single bacterium — doesn't become resistant to a chemical.
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Lyme disease is controversial because the bacterium that causes it can be hard to detectChronic Lyme disease has been controversial in the medical community for a long time since Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme, can be hard to detect in the bloodstream.
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But the researchers also found peptide markers consistent with Brucella melitensis—a bacterium that causes brucellosis.
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The Neanderthals must have passed that bacterium to modern humans when the two interbred, Doney says.
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Listeria is a serious infection usually caused by eating food contaminated with the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes.
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Most surprisingly, less vitamin A meant more of one bacterium, called Bacteroides vulgatus, and vice versa.
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This bacterium multiplies a lot during the summer, resulting in massive growth spurts known as blooms.
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The condition, caused by certain strains of Chlamydia trachomatis, a bacterium, makes the eyelid turn inward.
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In comparison, the Lyme bacterium needs 103 hours to pass from a tick to a human.
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"Every bacterium we looked at produced at least some of" the aromatic molecules, said Dr. Whittaker.
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Botulism is a rare form of life-threatening food poisoning caused by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum.
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Lyme disease is transmitted by bites from ticks that carry the Lyme-causing bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi.
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JOE KERNEN: You put it into a host bacterium -- CRAIG VENTER: Just to boot it up.
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The prevailing view was that no bacterium could thrive in the acidic environment of the stomach.
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Still another bacterium, the familiar E. coli, transferred DNA into brewer's yeast, which is a fungus.
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His blood cultures quickly grew out Staphylococcus aureus, an aggressive bacterium usually found on the skin.
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The shot that protects against 23 strains of one bacterium is Pneumovax 23, not Prevnar 23.
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The shot that protects against 24637 strains of one bacterium is Pneumovax 23, not Prevnar 23.
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The bacterium often hijacks its hosts' reproductive abilities, allowing it to spread quickly within a population.
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Raw milk can contain dangerous bacteria like listeria, salmonella, E. coli, and even the tuberculosis bacterium.
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When bacterial sugars are tagged as "foreign," a person's immune system targets the bacterium for destruction.
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C. diff, as it is also known, is a bacterium that lives in many healthy people.
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The bacterium is believed to have originated in Yunnan in southwest China, where it remains endemic.
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At this point, the phage injects its DNA into the bacterium, halting its normal reproduction process.
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Thanks to remarkable analysis of its genome, the history of this bacterium is now well understood.
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Group A strep is a bacterium that can cause many different infections that can lead to sepsis.
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So next, Woo and his team decided to use a bacterium that resembles a chloroplast — Synechococcus elongatus.
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When a virus attacks, the bacterium stores small chunks of the viral genome within its own DNA.
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Only in the later 19th century would it be recognized as the contagious bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB).
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To do so, she started with a bacterium called Escherichia coli, which is much beloved by biologists.
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"Mostly it depends by the bacterium carried by the fly and where the fly lands," she said.
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Vibrio vulnificus is a natural bacterium found in coastal gulf waters, particularly when water temperatures are warm.
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Listeria monocytogenes can cause a serious infection called listeriosis if people eat food contaminated with the bacterium.
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It's produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum and sometimes by strains of Clostridium butyricum and Clostridium baratii.
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Then there is the male-hating microbe Wolbachia pipientis, which Mr Yong endearingly names his "favourite bacterium".
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These "spacers" are excerpts from the sequences of viruses that have attacked the bacterium or its ancestors.
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Perez tested positive for a bacterium commonly found in coastal ocean water, Vibrio vulnificus, according to KYW.
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A specific bacterium might boost a plant in Texas and have no effect at all in Oregon.
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The bacterium, Chlamydia trachomatis, can be transmitted from person to person by, for example, sharing a towel.
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The infection, caused by food that has been contaminated with the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes, is often lethal.
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The bacterium had figured out how to do something that humans have struggled to do for decades.
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Antibodies are very particular about which threats they bind to, be it a bacterium or a virus.
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Exactly how primates are exposed to the bacterium, Bacillus cereus biovar anthracis (Bcbva), is not well understood.
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A gene from a soil bacterium, for instance, makes soybeans immune to a widely used weed killer.
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Toxic Shock Syndrome is caused by a bacterium that can exist on some people&aposs hands naturally.
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Legionnaires' disease is a type of pneumonia that stems from the Legionella bacterium and infects the lungs.
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His illness turned out to be linked to Group A streptococcus, the bacterium that causes strep throat.
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After the bacterium Y. pestis infects its host, it can result in bubonic, septicemic, or pneumonic plague.
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Legionnaires' disease is a type of pneumonia that stems from the Legionella bacterium and infects the lungs.
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Up to 90 percent of those infected with the bacterium will never come down with the illness.
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Those antibiotics appeared to be linked to a depletion of a bacterium called Akkermansia muciniphila in the microbiome.
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Further study revealed that a single type of soil bacterium, called TRM1, appeared to be providing the protection.
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This bacterium causes listeriosis, a serious infection of particular concern for pregnant women, older adults and young children.
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Previous studies by the team found that a gut bacterium called Christensenella was more prevalent in leaner people.
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Cholera, an acute diarrheal disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, can kill within hours if left untreated.
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"To date, no BD flush product has ever tested positive for this bacterium," Kirkpatrick said in an email.
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It breaks down the gut wall of insect larvae; it does not create a bacterium that does so.
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People with metabolic disorders may benefit from supplements of a common gut bacterium, a small pilot study suggests.
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Leprosy is the result of infection with Mycobacterium leprae, a close cousin of the bacterium that causes tuberculosis.
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Suddenly, one bacterium shoots out a long appendage, latches onto a DNA fragment and reels in its catch.
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B. infantis is not the only endangered bacterium in the West, and babies aren't the only ones affected.
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The researchers also reconstructed the genome of a 48,000-year-old oral bacterium from one of the Neanderthals.
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One intriguing example is a gut bacterium from mealworms that can digest polystyrene, converting it to carbon dioxide.
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Half of those non-responders were infected by strains of the bacterium immune to second-line treatments as well.
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The plague is caused by a bacterium, Yersinia pestis, which infects fleas, which in turn live mainly on rodents.
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This startup uses a bacterium to detect it faster, and it's the direct result of the founder's PhD work.
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That's because these strains produce a biotoxin called Shiga originally discovered in the bacterium that most often causes dysentery.
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They hoped to create a system where the more light a bacterium received, the faster its tail would move.
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New research published today in Cell describes a newly identified strain of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague.
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The latest important clue comes from Heliobacterium modesticaldum, which has the distinction of being the simplest known photosynthetic bacterium.
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Within days he was in the hospital, infected with vibrio vulnificus, a bacterium commonly found in coastal ocean water.
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Reality check: There's evidence the Lyme disease-causing bacterium — Borrelia burgdorferi — has been in North America for 60,000 years.
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The bacterium causing Legionnaires' has not been confirmed at the hotel, which has hired outside experts to conduct testing.
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First: The person doing the spitting has to be sick—infected with one of the above viruses or bacterium.
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The bacterium is part of the same family of organisms that cause leprosy and tuberculosis, according to the WHO.
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Syphilis, caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum, can affect the heart, nervous system and other organs if left untreated.
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"It's always good news if we find ways of destroying plastics, and this bacterium is no exception," Halden said.
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People with obesity-related disorders may benefit from supplements of a common gut bacterium, a small pilot study suggests.
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For example, Pneumovax 23, the anti-pneumonia shot given to middle-aged people, negates 23 strains of one bacterium.
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The bacterium Candidatus Desulforudis audaxviator was discovered back in 2008, 2.8 kilometers underground in a South African gold mine.
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Plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which humans get when they are bitten by rodent-riding fleas.
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Let's consider a researcher who has modified the genome of a bacterium so that it will produce human insulin.
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But the hospital's water supply and its NICU surfaces have tested negative for the bacterium, the Associated Press reported.
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Just as critically, the antibodies in the mice would kill the Lyme bacterium in any ticks that bite them.
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In this disorder, a bacterium known as Tropheryma whipplei attacks the digestive system, causing abdominal pain, diarrhea and malabsorption.
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TB is caused by a bacterium that usually attacks the lungs and, in its most virulent form, is deadly.
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One such bacterium, Cupriavidus necator , can draw carbon dioxide out of the air and excrete it as natural plastic.
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Two years ago, scientists unmasked the bacterium behind Justinian's Plague as the same one that caused the Medieval pandemic.
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In the late 19th century, a Norwegian physician, Gerhard Armauer Hansen, identified the bacterium causing the disease, Mycobacterium leprae.
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What was in the cheese, however, was Brucella melitensis, a bacterium that causes its potentially deadly namesake disease, brucellosis.
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Doctors have been waiting for cases of highly resistant gonorrhea, caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae, above, to show up.
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Custom Audiences helps mercenary marketers find that dish, and lets them plant the bacterium of a Facebook post inside it.
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Crop plants of the nightshade family, such as potatoes and tomatoes, are susceptible to a soil bacterium called Ralstonia solanacearum.
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This study's enzyme, called BhCas12b, is from a bacterium (Bacillus hisashii) that lives in hot environments like geysers and volcanoes.
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Tanaka's mathematical model shows how an otherwise harmless bacterium like M. tuberculosis is capable of developing into a transmissible pathogen.
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They are caused by the intestinal bacterium Escherichia coli, which makes its way from from the urethra to the bladder.
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In turn, the man likely became infected by the F. tularensis bacterium while administering the cancer medication to the feline.
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Three more steps were necessary, however, before the bacterium could actually produce the new proteins encoded by its novel bases.
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The Harvard chemist takes two individual atoms, a sodium and a cesium, each about 10,000 times smaller than a bacterium.
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The bacterium E. coli was found in nearly a quarter of the products, and Salmonella in 20 percent of products.
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Doctors once thought that stress was the primary culprit behind ulcers, but biologists uncovered a bacterium as the main cause.
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This is to reduce the genetic instruction set of a bacterium to the minimum that will keep the bug alive.
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Pneumonic plague is one of three types of infectious disease known as plague caused by the same bacterium, Yersinia pestis.
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They were dropped from a height of five inches onto surfaces treated with a bacterium with characteristics similar to salmonella.
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As a weakened TB bacterium, BCG appears to provoke a general immune system reaction that then works against the cancer.
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She was diagnosed with sepsis, a life-threatening immune response to an infection with Legionella bacterium that entered her bloodstream.
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A group of German researchers identified the bacterium Pseudomonas putida in the soil of a site covered in plastic waste.
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The bacterium can metabolize the "building blocks" of polyurethane, but it alone likely could not break down large polyurethane polymers.
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In the desolate, plastic-littered ground with little else to eat, the bacterium quickly acquired a taste for our waste.
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Infants who picked up the bacterium while passing through the birth canal generally fare better than those infected during pregnancy.
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In this country, the infection is usually caused by a bacterium called Streptobacillus moniliformis, which can be transmitted by rodents.
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Vibrio vulnificus is a bacterium that lives in the Gulf Coast waters and kills one in seven people it infects.
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Bacteria can form their own communities, called biofilms, that emerge from the collective behavior of thousands of individual bacterium cells.
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The only flea-borne disease mentioned in the C.D.C. report is plague, the bacterium responsible for the medieval Black Death.
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Their fleas may carry the Yersinia pestis bacterium, which causes the illness, and the parasites sometimes bite pets and humans.
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In case you forgot your Infectious Diseases 101, cholera is a bacterium that thrives in water polluted by fecal matter.
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A mysterious bacterium wormed its way into his body, tearing away at his flesh and turning his skin purplish-black.
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Suppose I take a bacterium from soil, and I put it in a petri dish, and it forms a colony.
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Have you ever contemplated how much every plant, fungus, bacterium, insect, bird, fish, and mammal all put together would weigh?
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This was true bubonic plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, the agent of the more famous medieval Black Death.
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A potentially lethal bacterium, Staphylococcus aureus, had entered his blood and soon leapt to his spine, leaving him partially paralyzed.
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I doubt that it would more than a single cell life form so the size would be comparable to a bacterium.
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Pneumonic tularemia is the most serious form of the disease and is most likely to occur when the bacterium is inhaled.
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Among its accomplishments, TIGR unveiled the first complete genomic sequence of a free-living organism, the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae, in 1995.
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Rif, as it's known, was discovered almost 50 years ago, and over time the bacterium causing TB has developed a resistance.
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Archaeologists have long suspected that brucellosis was rampant in ancient Egypt; the bacterium in the cheese seems to prove the case.
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The disease thrives in people who live in crowded conditions, inhaling one another's germs, and the bacterium dies quickly in sunlight.
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In 2013, European researchers discovered that a virulent form of the bacterium that causes meningitis was spreading sexually among gay men.
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J. Craig Venter poses before a gene map of a flu-causing bacterium in his Rockville, Md., office, March 12, 1997.
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The researchers pretty much just built a computer inside each bacterium that accepts light as an input and outputs a color.
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In other words, even bacterium would have difficulty forming, let alone surviving long enough to evolve into more complex life-forms.
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A team of German scientists has confirmed that the two plagues were caused by the same bacterium, albeit genetically different strains.
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Van Eck used a bacterium that is very good at infecting plants to carry the Crispr mutation tool inside tomato cells.
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Further analysis in 2016 showed the bacterium carried mcr-1, a gene that creates resistance to the last-ditch antibiotic colistin.
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According to the CDC, Lyme disease is caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, which is spread to humans by infected ticks.
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This process found 150 such non-essential genes, but that did not mean a bacterium could survive without all of them.
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Every single mouse that was infected with the bacterium died if they were given food, but half survived on the saline.
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After many years of resistance from mainstream medical scientists, it has become clear that a bacterium, Helicobacter pylori, is the culprit.
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One Texas man even died after swimming with a new tattoo, which became infected with a bacterium found in coastal waters.
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The Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania, previously explained that the infants had developed an infection caused by the pseudomonas bacterium.
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If a humble bacterium can change the atmosphere, Earth's surface, and evolution, it's not that hard to imagine we can too.
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T-cells patrol the body looking for protein fragments that indicate a cell might be infected by a bacterium or virus.
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Many of those deaths may be related to infection with Clostridium difficile, a bacterium that's a particular threat to elderly people.
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It can take weeks, even months, for the bacterium to disassemble a PET bottle or food container in the real world.
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Whether the bacterium, called Fusobacterium nucleatum, actually plays a role in causing or spurring the growth of cancer is not known.
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Microbiologists focused on a bacterium they had discovered decades earlier in the lungs of influenza victims, and called it Bacillus influenza.
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Every year, it is estimated, more than 10m people catch the bacterium which causes this illness, and 21.4m die of it.
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Patients in the study were suffering from recurrent CDI, the infection which is caused by clostridium difficile, a spore-forming bacterium.
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Seems ridiculous, but without the knowledge that a water-borne bacterium was the culprit, it was impossible to find a solution.
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For the first time, scientists have demonstrated the possibility of coaxing a prokaryotic host, the bacterium Escherichia coli, into producing psilocybin.
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If the full-blown infection listeriosis sets in, death rates can approach 30% as the bacterium invades the bloodstream and organs.
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In their analysis of the ancient bacterium, they discovered previously unknown mutations, allegedly associated with the plague's ability to cause disease.
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As the Frederick News-Post reported, the USAMRIID facility at Fort Detrick was investigating three of these top-tier agents when it got the cease-and-desist order: the Ebola virus, Yersinia pestis (the bacterium responsible for the plague), and Francisella tularensis (the bacterium responsible for tularemia, also known as deer fly fever and rabbit fever).
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The bacterium that causes Lyme disease is difficult to detect in the bloodstream, so doctors often have to rely on symptomsBorrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme, is hard to detect in the bloodstream, meaning there are very little ways to prove someone does or doesn't have Lyme, beyond matching the symptoms they report to Lyme disease symptoms.
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