Get to know Bacterium better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like bacteria or microorganism.
Bacterium in a sentence
Bacterium meaning
A single-celled organism with cell walls but no nucleus or organelles.
Synonyms of Bacterium
Using Bacterium
- The main meaning on this page is: A single-celled organism with cell walls but no nucleus or organelles.
- Useful related words include: bacteria, microorganism, micro-organism.
- In the example corpus, bacterium often appears in combinations such as: the bacterium, bacterium that, bacterium to.
Context around Bacterium
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bacterium
- In this selection, "bacterium" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, intracellular, single, producing, developing, generally and xylella stand out and add context to how "bacterium" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a single bacterium can be and added the bacterium legionella pneumophila. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bacterium" sits close to words such as acupuncture, aero and ahl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bacterium
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Cholera is contracted from a bacterium generally transmitted through contaminated food or water. (13 words)
This bacterium typically spreads in hospitals and can cause pneumonia, meningitis and urinary tract infections. (15 words)
Propolis is known to inhibit the growth of H. Pylori, the bacterium associated with ulcers. (15 words)
Shutting down dangerous gain-of-function research–by which I mean research designed to take a virus or bacterium and make it more deadly in humans or in other animals–would only affect a tiny percentage of virologists worldwide. (39 words)
Additional research on household washing machines and dryers, which operate similarly to your gym's swimsuit dryer, found that 20% contained E. coli in the drum—a bacterium that can cause diarrhoea, stomach issues, and cystitis. (36 words)
The date marks the day in 1882 when Dr. Robert Koch announced that he had discovered the bacterium that causes TB, which opened the way towards diagnosing and curing this disease. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
Experiments included various delivery methods, vacuum drying, sizing the bacterium, developing strains resistant to antibiotics, combining the bacterium with other diseases (such as diphtheria ), and genetic engineering.
This symbiotic relationship enhances the bacterium's ability to survive in an aquatic environment, as the exoskeleton provides the bacterium with carbon and nitrogen.
Cholera is contracted from a bacterium generally transmitted through contaminated food or water.
For about a decade, Italy’s olive trees have been under vicious attack from the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa.
Health officials said that leprosy is a chronic infection of the skin and peripheral nerves caused by the obligate intracellular bacterium, mycobacterium leprae, also known as “Hansen’s Bacillus”.
In addition to weather challenges, its biggest olive-growing region is struggling to contain a bacterium that is killing olive trees.
In the end, the mystery is solved, and the culprit was the bacterium Bartonella henselae, which causes cat scratch disease and disseminated bartonellosis, which can often mimic schizophrenia.
Shutting down dangerous gain-of-function research–by which I mean research designed to take a virus or bacterium and make it more deadly in humans or in other animals–would only affect a tiny percentage of virologists worldwide.
The bacterium was revealed to be a highly efficient degrader of intestinal mucus, the protective slimy layer that separates most intestinal bacteria from the host cells.
The date marks the day in 1882 when Dr. Robert Koch announced that he had discovered the bacterium that causes TB, which opened the way towards diagnosing and curing this disease.
The HSE added: “The bacterium Legionella pneumophila and related bacteria are common in natural water sources such as rivers, lakes, and reservoirs but usually in low numbers.
These energies are intense: The contributing electric field in a single bacterium can be stronger than those in lightning bolts.
This bacterium typically spreads in hospitals and can cause pneumonia, meningitis and urinary tract infections.
When a tick that’s fed on one of these infected mice then feeds on a human, it can pass along that bacterium, which causes Lyme disease.
Additional research on household washing machines and dryers, which operate similarly to your gym's swimsuit dryer, found that 20% contained E. coli in the drum—a bacterium that can cause diarrhoea, stomach issues, and cystitis.
After four weeks of use, the aloe vera mouth rinse decreased plaque, gingivitis, and salivary Streptococcus mutans (a plaque-producing bacterium), making it comparable to that of chlorhexidine.
High levels of the intestinal enterococci bacterium indicate there is sewage and human faeces in the water, which can cause sickness and diarrhoea.
The current outbreak is of Shiga toxin-producing E.coli (Stec), a bacterium that can cause severe foodborne disease.
With the help of the pros, the student safely isolated a bacterium from the droppings that showed antibiotic activity an incredibly rare and important feat, say the experts.
Propolis is known to inhibit the growth of H. Pylori, the bacterium associated with ulcers.
Common combinations with bacterium
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the bacterium 48×
- bacterium that 8×
- bacterium to 5×
- this bacterium 4×
- of bacterium 4×
- plague bacterium 4×
- bacterium with 3×
- or bacterium 3×
- bacterium was 3×
- bacterium can 3×