bacterium
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A research team led by Drs. Se Hee Lee and Tae Woong Whon at WiKim focused on a kimchi-derived bacterium called Leuconostoc mesenteroides CBA3656.
From Science Daily • May 18, 2026
Earlier research in the series focused mainly on Yersinia pestis, the bacterium responsible for plague.
From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2026
The key difference turned out to be a virus living inside the bacterium.
From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2026
The researchers began by studying Danish patients who had experienced a serious bloodstream infection caused by the gut bacterium Bacteroides fragilis.
From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2026
There’s even a bacterium named after Pasteur: Pasteurella multocida.
From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm
Vocabulary lists containing bacterium
