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Перевод: microbe

[существительное]
микроб ; микроорганизм

Тезаурус:

1. Fleming went on to describe how the nasal secretions of the patient (himself, in fact) were cultured, and how a round microbe or coccus first grew and then was destroyed where it came close to the nasal secretion.
2. The answer lies in the microbe's primary habitat.
3. Current thinking is that the chromosome of E. coli meets all the microbe's ordinary domestic needs, which rarely change, and that plasmid-borne information comes into play only when the microbe encounters a stress - a changed nutrient, an antibiotic or competitor.
4. The malleable microbe
5. Indeed, it appeared to be a necessary property of any microbe capable of invading animal tissues that it was resistant to the action of lysozyme.
6. While E. coli carries its main genetic archive on conventional chromosomes, plasmids equip the microbe with small libraries of supplementary information.
7. It was, in fact, a double discovery, both of a new microbe and of an agent which destroyed it.
8. Yet in the face of environmental stress, a malleable genome has given the microbe the edge on the elephant.
9. The processes which keep alive a microbe, a spinach plant, and a human turned out to have more in common than might have been expected.
10. Apart from quinine for malaria and arsenicals for syphilis and sleeping sickness, chemotherapy was unpromising, usually because the "chemical" did as much damage to the patient as to the microbe.