How to Use bacterium in a Sentence

bacterium

noun

• More on the Black Death: The plague was caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2022
• The bacterium was found in the boy's brain, lung, liver, and spleen.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2022
• The clear spots are areas where phage have killed the bacterium.
  — David A. Shaywitz, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2023
• The bacterium is present in deer ticks in the Northeast and Midwestern US.
  — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2023
• One is caused by fungi and the other is caused by a bacterium.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
• So yes, the astonishing size of the bacterium is, well, big news.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 12 July 2022
• The bacterium is often found in the nose and throat of people without causing the disease.
  — Monique Calello, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2023
• Gros also found the bacterium attached to oyster shells, rocks and glass bottles in the swamp.
  — Christina Larson, ajc, 23 June 2022
• There is no cure for foulbrood, which is caused by the larvae of the bacterium Paenibacillus.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 5 Jan. 2023
• The plague-causing bacterium Yersinia pestis is dated to have first emerged in humans about 5,000 years ago.
  — Amarachi Orie, CNN, 20 Jan. 2023
• There is a nasty bacterium that cats have in their mouths called Pasteurella.
  — Cathy M. Rosenthal, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Aug. 2022
• Scientists used a bacterium to clone each piece of the genome, and then studied them in smaller groups.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 1 Apr. 2022
• The disease was caused by a bacterium that would later become known as Yersinia pestis.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 15 June 2022
• That strain of the bacterium is found in tropical parts of the Americas.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 28 July 2022
• The bacterium also caused the third plague pandemic between the 19th and 20th centuries.
  — Amarachi Orie, CNN, 20 Jan. 2023
• This bacterium was long carried by fleas that feasted on black rats.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2022
• Botox is the brand name of a type of toxin produced by a bacterium called Clostridium botulinum.
  — Verywell Health, 5 Feb. 2023
• This super bacterium can survive for up to three years in outer space.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 23 Mar. 2022
• Their fur houses fleas, which can be infected with a bacterium that can set off fever.
  — Madeleine Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, 27 July 2023
• In 2011, scientists first sequenced the genome of the plague bacterium -- Yersina pestis -- found in two plague victims buried in a pit in London.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 15 June 2022
• When a different bacterium was endowed with genes for making fatty acid amides and fed to germ-free mice, the mice again got a dopamine boost.
  — Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 14 Dec. 2022
• The problem is that uncooked rice can have spores of Bacillus cereus, which is a bacterium that can cause food poisoning.
  — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Aug. 2022
• Any drug that wants to get into a Gram-negative bacterium's cell must traverse both membranes and the periplasm—no small feat.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2024
• The bacterium that causes anthrax — which had been present on the peninsula for over a century — emerged from the soil and spread like wildfire.
  — Jim Geraghty, National Review, 27 Mar. 2022
• If the bacterium’s DNA gets compromised, that’s bad news for the lambda phage nested within it.
  — Ivan Erill-University Of Maryland, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2022
• One person died when the bacterium entered the patient's bloodstream.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2023
• Larvicides made from natural substances like the bacterium Bti, for instance, have been used for three decades and cost about $1.50 per pound in the U.S.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2022
• This little remnant of a bacterium might be the source of some tools eukaryotic cells use to kill themselves.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
• The bacterium typically doesn’t pose a risk to healthy people.
  — Ginger Adams Otis, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2022
• With high doses, five of the peptides killed a different kind of bacterium that grew in skin infections.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024