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Drug-resistant bac¬te¬ri¬um
Answer for the clue "Drug-resistant bac¬te¬ri¬um ", 8 letters:
superbug
Alternative clues for the word superbug
- Microorganism resistant to antibiotics
- Drug-resistant bacterium
- Energy drink first, then grub cooked for one not responding to treatment
- Organism resistant to antibiotics
- Virus that withstands medication
- A strain accidentally imported into Florida from the Middle East then spread to California where it is a very serious pest feeding on almost all vegetable crops and poinsettias
Word definitions for superbug in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ That did kill many, but some mosquitoes became resistant: A superbug had evolved. ▪ The tots were struck down by a superbug in the intensive care unit at the London hospital.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a strain accidentally imported into Florida from the Middle East then spread to California where it is a very serious pest feeding on almost all vegetable crops and poinsettias [syn: Bemisia tabaci , poinsettia strain ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context colloquial English) A strain of bacteria that has become resistant to many antibiotics. 2 (context US English) An insect, ''Bemisia tabaci'', that is a serious pest.
Usage examples of superbug.
Soviet scientists even attempted to splice the botulinum toxin gene into other bacteria to create a so-called superbug.
Senate committee investigation concluded that the bacteria had mutated into a superbug because the drug industry had aggressively promoted chloramphenicol for a wide variety of infections in Mexico and other developing countries.
From hospitals, resistant superbugs travel to old-age homes and day-care centers, predating on the old and the very young.