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superbug
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
superbug
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.
Wiktionary
superbug

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.

WordNet
superbug

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]

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.