microbial

microbe | American Dictionary

microbe
noun[ C ]
us/ˈmɑɪ·kroʊb/
biology
a very small living thing, esp. one that causes disease, and which is too small to see without a microscope (= device that makes very small objects look larger)

Examples of microbe

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This would potentially facilitate competition between microbes and reduce the risk of a small number of pathogens dominating and, therefore, proliferating.
This can take measurements using fluorescence to establish the three microbe states: viable, dead or dormant.
However, amazing adaptations to extreme stresses do not only occur in microbes, but also in many multicellular organisms.
The next phase of our work focuses on exploring the alterations in physiological mechanisms that might allow for growth of eukaryotic microbes at acid extremes.
The early microbe hunters knew this, and they took the task of cash-out seriously.
I would perhaps most recommend this book to microbiologists interested in the response of microbes to high pressures and the biochemical basis for this response.
Instead, like microbes that are essentially too small to see, he would have appeared other than as he essentially was.
The microbe is often isolated only from patients but not from the water source.
Except in special circumstances where one may be looking for specific microbes, the knowledge gained by viable counts is minimal for biomass estimations.
It probably began with microbes, followed later by plants and then by animals.
Laboratory simulation experiments designed to select and characterize oxidant-destroying terrestrial microbes may help to resolve this issue.
Yet, despite all these hazards with their devastating effects on animals and plants, microbes appear to survive, and perhaps even thrive.
Lateral gene transfer as we know it today presupposes significant similarities in the genomes of the microbes involved.
A further advantage applicable to low-temperature environments is that diurnal freeze-thaw cycles might be mitigated, reducing freeze-thaw stress to the microbes.
In other words, the biological diversity of the microbes is much greater than that of large multicellular organisms.
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