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Type Words
Synonyms bemisia tabaci, poinsettia strain
Type of sweet-potato whitefly
Type Words
Type of bacteria, bacterium

Examples of superbug

superbug
Between 15,000 to 20,000 people die each year while infected with this superbug.
From the sciencedaily.com
News of the so-called superbug was everywhere and catching doctors by surprise.
From the abcnews.go.com
The NDM-1 superbug also has been detected in India, the United States and Europe.
From the stltoday.com
Resistant forms of this bacterium include the notorious hospital superbug MRSA.
From the newscientist.com
The four patients probably contracted the superbug in the Indian subcontinent.
From the theepochtimes.com
Twelve years later, the superbug was responsible for 368,000 hospitalisations.
From the newscientist.com
Are UN soldiers responsible for bring deadly cholera superbug to the Americas?
From the infowars.com
By many accounts, the superbug problem is far worse now than it was ten years ago.
From the infowars.com
However, tests failed to identify the samples as any known strains of the superbug.
From the newscientist.com
More examples
  • A strain of bacteria that is resistant to all antibiotics
  • A strain of pest 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
  • Jargon for the bacterial strain of Pseudomonas developed by Chakrabarty, who combined hydrocarbon-degrading genes carried on different plasmids into one organism. ...