Sentences with phrase «bacteria is ubiquitous»

The bacteria is ubiquitous in the environment, but the source of infection is still unclear.

Bacteria are ubiquitous.

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The problem, epidemiologists say, is that legionella is a very common bacteria, ubiquitous in the environment.

Travis Book, an environmental group manager at Barclay Water Management, said it is fairly common for cooling towers to become reinfected with Legionella, the bacteria that causes Legionnaires» disease, even after being cleaned for it, given how ubiquitous it is.

«This is a unique discovery of a botulinum neurotoxin in a bacterium that is both ubiquitous in animals and a serious problem in human health,» says Lebreton.

The most commonly found bacteria were from three genera that are ubiquitous on and in humans: Streptococcus, which is commonly found in the mouth, and Staphylococcus and Corynebacterium, both common skin residents.

2.7 billion years ago — Cyanobacteria These ubiquitous bacteria were the first oxygen producers.

A bacterium hazardous to people with liver disease or a compromised immune system is ubiquitous in the warm waters around the Florida coast and gets into the oysters.

It's possible, say scientists who have studied these symbiotic bacteria, fungi and other microbes, that gut microbiomes might be less ubiquitous than previously assumed.

Over on the news side today is an article I put together for Scientific American Online on some mysterious, ubiquitous, and sometimes - deadly red bacteria that are probably at this moment living in your shower grout and contact lens case.

Biofilms are complex systems produced by virtually all bacteria on almost any water / surface boundary and are ubiquitous in nature [18], [19].

More recent work has shown that glycolipids capable of stimulating Vα14 iNKT cells are found in several types of bacteria, including the relatively nonpathogenic and ubiquitous species of Sphingomonas organisms, and the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, which causes Lyme disease.

Vibrio bacteria are pretty ubiquitous in the world's oceans, but there are freshwater species, too — you've probably heard of cholera, the disease brought to you by the freshwater Vibrio cholerae, which infects millions of people worldwide each year, especially in developing countries.

In an interesting twist, fiber is one the single most ubiquitous prebiotics, or fuels for healthy gut bacteria.