How to Use staph in a Sentence

staph

noun

• The strep and staph that Schmidt’s team found had been there for years, maybe decades.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 16 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Mostly the ones that cause colds, flus and diarrhea, but also norovirus, staph, MRSA and more.
  — Elisabeth Leamy, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 Dec. 2017
• 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
• Tests that can detect staph DNA yield faster results than growing the bacteria in a lab.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 8 June 2021
• John had a brain bleed and staph infection, while his sister underwent open-heart surgery, Perell writes.
  — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE.com, 18 Nov. 2021
• Now is not the time to willingly put yourself at risk of infections, like staph and cellulitis.
  — Devon Abelman, Allure, 24 Apr. 2020
• 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
• 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
• So giving in to a life-threatening staph infection was not an option.
  — Scott Miller, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• 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
• 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
• At least two people have contracted staph infections, the complaint adds.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Plus, the researchers had never come across staph or strep in samples collected from other extreme locations.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 16 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Doctors then discovered the staph infection, which can be very serious.
  — Tom Withers, Star Tribune, 19 Feb. 2021
• An excess of harmful bacteria, like staph bacteria, can trigger flares of eczema symptoms.
  — Andrea Stanley, Health, 4 Mar. 2024
• The staph infection spread and eventually required surgery.
  — Tribune News Service, al, 24 July 2022
• 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
• 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
• Dean's health deteriorated rapidly in late April due to a staph infection.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
• 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
• 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
• There was essentially no difference in drug-resistance among staph infections between the two groups, albeit from a very small number of samples.
  — Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 18 July 2024

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024