How to Use bacterium in a Sentence

bacterium

noun

• More on the Black Death: The plague was caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2022
• The bacterium was found in the boy's brain, lung, liver, and spleen.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2022
• The clear spots are areas where phage have killed the bacterium.
  — David A. Shaywitz, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2023
• All three forms are caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium.
  — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2019
• Scientists at the time did not even know that a virus, not a bacterium, caused the flu.
  — Scott Hershberger, Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2020
• The disease is caused by a bacterium called Yersinia pestis.
  — Ari Daniel, NPR, 3 June 2024
• Plague is a disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Health.com, 13 June 2018
• The bacterium is present in deer ticks in the Northeast and Midwestern US.
  — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2023
• One is caused by fungi and the other is caused by a bacterium.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
• Sheldon thought this rule might govern all life in the ocean, from the smallest bacterium to the largest whales.
  — Matt Reynolds, Wired, 23 Nov. 2021
• The sugar sparked a series of events in each bacterium.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Jan. 2021
• So yes, the astonishing size of the bacterium is, well, big news.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 12 July 2022
• The green color comes from the chlorophyll, which is a natural part of the bacterium.
  — Yousong Ding, Washington Post, 9 May 2018
• There are many different strains of E. coli, a bacterium, and most of them live in our guts and don’t cause any harm.
  — Julia Belluz, Vox, 29 June 2018
• The bacterium is often found in the nose and throat of people without causing the disease.
  — Monique Calello, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2023
• Gros also found the bacterium attached to oyster shells, rocks and glass bottles in the swamp.
  — Christina Larson, ajc, 23 June 2022
• The beams, roughly the size of a bacterium, could oscillate up and down like a plucked guitar string.
  — Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS, 25 Apr. 2018
• Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that caused the plague in the 14th century, was carried around the world by fleas attached to people and rats.
  — Matthew Brown, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2020
• There is no cure for foulbrood, which is caused by the larvae of the bacterium Paenibacillus.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 5 Jan. 2023
• The plague-causing bacterium Yersinia pestis is dated to have first emerged in humans about 5,000 years ago.
  — Amarachi Orie, CNN, 20 Jan. 2023
• This is the most serious E. coli outbreak since 2006, when the bacterium spread from spinach.
  — Helena Oliviero, ajc, 19 May 2018
• These and others, like the bacterium behind the Black Death, have killed tens of millions of people over the centuries.
  — Cecilia.butini, Vox, 4 June 2024
• There is a nasty bacterium that cats have in their mouths called Pasteurella.
  — Cathy M. Rosenthal, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Aug. 2022
• The first sign is usually a lesion, a small, round and painless bump where the bacterium entered the body.
  — Matthew Ormseth, courant.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• Scientists used a bacterium to clone each piece of the genome, and then studied them in smaller groups.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 1 Apr. 2022
• The disease was caused by a bacterium that would later become known as Yersinia pestis.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 15 June 2022
• This oral bacterium is one of the major causes of tooth decay.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2024
• The real culprit is a bacterium called Yersinia pestis.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 Oct. 2019
• Rice contains a bacterium called Bacillus cereus, which can cause food poisoning.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025
• These days, the disease, which is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is treated with specific antibiotics — sometimes for as long as nine months, the Cleveland Clinic says.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 27 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 6 Mar 2025