How to Use staph in a Sentence
staph
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The strep and staph that Schmidt’s team found had been there for years, maybe decades.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 16 Mar. 2023
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The base surrounds the brush on all sides with UV light set at specific wavelengths to kill germs like E. coli and staph.
—Ann Lien, House Beautiful, 6 May 2019
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Mostly the ones that cause colds, flus and diarrhea, but also norovirus, staph, MRSA and more.
—Elisabeth Leamy, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 Dec. 2017
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His left foot was in a boot from the start of spring training because of surgery following a staph infection.
—Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 15 Oct. 2021
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Tests that can detect staph DNA yield faster results than growing the bacteria in a lab.
—Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 8 June 2021
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John had a brain bleed and staph infection, while his sister underwent open-heart surgery, Perell writes.
—Sam Gillette, PEOPLE.com, 18 Nov. 2021
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Now is not the time to willingly put yourself at risk of infections, like staph and cellulitis.
—Devon Abelman, Allure, 24 Apr. 2020
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And even the word staph relates to the shapes of grapes on a vine, a metaphor for how the bacteria look under a powerful microscope. Coronavirus?
—Hazlitt, 13 June 2022
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And new, even more deadly versions of staph may be on the way, due to intensive use of antibiotics on factory farms.
—Elizabeth Svoboda, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2012
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So giving in to a life-threatening staph infection was not an option.
—Scott Miller, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
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The last few years have been an onslaught of health problems – heart surgery, kidney failure, staph infections, thyroid trouble and a broken hip.
—Terry Pluto, cleveland, 30 Jan. 2023
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Or it could be used to test hospital surfaces for bacteria that cause staph infections and MRSA, the partners said.
—Evan MacDonald, cleveland, 5 Nov. 2020
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At least two people have contracted staph infections, the complaint adds.
—Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2023
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The red compound proved more effective at killing staph, and the blue one worked better on TB—including a drug-resistant strain—without damaging the lining of the mice's lungs.
—Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2019
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Failure to do so can result in pesky breakouts, rashes, and even something as serious as E. coli or a staph infection.
—Alyssa Longobucco, House Beautiful, 28 June 2023
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Her mother had brought the girl to the hospital due to her symptoms, which the woman told doctors had been diagnosed a couple of weeks earlier as a staph infection.
—John Lynch, Arkansas Online, 14 Dec. 2022
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Francona is lined up for another procedure shortly, this one to implant a steel rod in his left foot to replace a bone that was weakened by a staph infection.
—BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2021
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Tim Flannery’s rollicking life as an athlete and a musician was nearly cut short by a staph infection.
—Scott Miller, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
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Plus, the researchers had never come across staph or strep in samples collected from other extreme locations.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 16 Mar. 2023
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For a start, the three initial strains of resistant staph all came from patients who had never been exposed to methicillin, and who were treated in a hospital that had only ever used the drug once.
—Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2017
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Barker, according to the news outlet, is now suffering from staph and skin infections, in addition to battling blood clots.
—Nicole Darrah, Fox News, 21 June 2018
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Doctors then discovered the staph infection, which can be very serious.
—Tom Withers, Star Tribune, 19 Feb. 2021
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An excess of harmful bacteria, like staph bacteria, can trigger flares of eczema symptoms.
—Andrea Stanley, Health, 4 Mar. 2024
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The staph infection spread and eventually required surgery.
—Tribune News Service, al, 24 July 2022
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Staphylococcus aureus, a germ found in some people’s noses that can cause staph infections, doubles about every two hours, according to Dr. Vij.
—Melissa Matthews, SELF, 13 Apr. 2021
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Many kinds of pathogens, including enteroviruses and the bacteria that cause common staph and strep infections, are known to cause rare cases of myocarditis and pericarditis.
—Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2021
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Two of these components—one of which happens to be red when isolated and the other blue—killed staph and TB microorganisms, suggesting their potential as antibiotics.
—Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2019
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This bathroom cleaner only needs to be left wet on hard, non-porous surfaces for five minutes to almost completely kill the viruses and bacteria that cause staph infections, flu, cold sores and more.
—Lynn Redmile, Good Housekeeping, 6 Apr. 2021
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In recent days, doctors have been trying to address a staph infection Oliverson has developed, per the Instagram page.
—Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Sep. 2022
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When a staph infection killed Molly Cordell’s mother just before Halloween in 2015, Molly felt, almost immediately, as if she were being shoved out of her own life.
—New York Times, 1 Dec. 2021
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