bacterium

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These three compounds come from a blood-dwelling bacterium and were shown to reduce both cellular damage and inflammation in laboratory-grown human skin cells.

From Science Daily

The bacterium was first identified in 1977 as the cause of an outbreak of severe pneumonia at an American Legion convention centre in Philadelphia a year earlier.

From BBC

The bacterium also spreads when people who are immunocompromised or have liver disease eat raw oysters that are contaminated.

From New York Times

For this design, they targeted Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a nasty bacterium associated with deadly diseases like hard to treat forms of pneumonia and sepsis syndromes.

From Salon

We found both rural and urban streams have high levels of Escherichia coli, a bacterium found in human or animal feces and commonly identified in freshwater and coastal environments in Aotearoa.

From Salon