Crossword clues for staph
staph
- Bacteria in grapelike clusters
- Type of infection, briefly
- Short infection?
- Penicillin target, sometimes
- Office bug?
- Infection type
- Disease-causing bacteria
- Workplace danger whose homonym is a workplace asset
- Type of bacterial infection
- Toxic shock source
- The "S" of S. aureus bacteria, for short
- Serious hospital bug
- Parasitic bacteria
- Nasty bacteria, informally
- Infectious bacteria
- Infection variety
- Hospital bug
- Common infection, briefly
- Common bacteria
- Bacterial infection
- Bacterial genus briefly
- Bacteria type, informally
- Hospital danger
- Infection cause
- Infectious bacteria, briefly
- Kind of infection, for short
- В В Hospital danger
- Health menace, briefly
- Sycosis source, informally
- ___ infection
- Spherical gram-positive parasitic bacteria that tend to form irregular colonies
- Some cause boils or septicemia or infections
- Pathogenic bacterium, for short
- Short for infection-causing bacteria
- Kin of strep
- A bacterium, for short
- Dangerous bacteria (abbr.)
- Skin infection
- Bad bacterium, briefly
- Type of infection
- Spherical bacterium, briefly
- Dangerous bacterium
- Bacterial infection, for short
- Possible infection cause
- Infection-causing bacteria
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
colloquial short form of staphylococcus, attested from 1933.
Wiktionary
n. ''Staphylococcus'' bacteria and its infection.
WordNet
n. spherical gram-positive parasitic bacteria that tend to form irregular colonies; some cause boils or septicemia or infections [syn: staphylococcus, staphylococci]
Usage examples of "staph".
The staph bacteria in question proved resistant to treatment with penicillins, but had responded to high doses of cephalosporin.
Ford was concerned, when staph overcame that final hurdle, the post-antibiotic era would have arrived.
Through the production of a variety of toxins and enzymes, staph caused boils, abscesses, conjunctivitis, and a condition known as scalded skin syndrome in which the skin came away in sheets.
She had been reviewing the staph cases in the isolation rooms and wanted to go over the facts, she said.
The media had eased off a little since the beginning of the staph outbreak.
The truth was the staph cases had left him feeling just the same way: helpless, cut adrift from the bedrock of experience and knowledge.
Mary had even said in the ambulance that it had to be an infection of some kind with his temp that high, but he had assumed she meant a localized infection, staph or an inflamed appendix.
If staphylococcus gets hold of this resistance information, then staph could become the first bacterial superhero of the post-antibiotic era, and human physicians of the twenty-first century would be every bit as helpless before it as were physicians of the 19th.
Never mind a thing like staph or gonorrhea which mutated into forms resistant to a drug like penicillin.
She reminded herself not to scratch it, scratched anyway, cursed Korchow, and brooded about staph infections.
Originally placed with local foster parents, he was no longer in the state of Louisiana when the cemeteries society first enquired into the status of the Delesormes tomb in September 1990, and subsequent research revealed that he had died earlier that same year in a small town in Vermont, of a staph infection contracted while he was in the hospital for an appendectomy.
It was an Africa of AIDS and malnutrition and drought and malaria and staph infections and dengue fever and endless futile wars, an Africa drenched in savagery.
Most people are carrying disease organisms around in their mouth or body normally- staph or strep, sometimes diphtheria and pneumococcus-and if your bodily defenses go down, you infect yourself.
Staph, as we know, comes into constant contact with antibiotics, especially within the hospital environment, but botulinum does not.
The staph bacteria in question proved resistant to treatment with penicillins, but had responded to high doses of cephalosporin.