How to Use superbug in a Sentence

superbug

noun

• The good news is that the superbugs are not common elsewhere in the hospitals.
  — NBC News, 6 Feb. 2018
• The misuse and overuse of the drugs, which is unlikely to stop soon, cause the mutations which lead to superbugs.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 6 July 2018
• The threat of those lurking superbugs is realized in the case report of the Ukrainian soldier, a man in his mid-50s.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 July 2023
• Moreover, the superbugs that are already here also need to be treated.
  — Jayasree K. Iyer, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2023
• The antibiotics-resistant superbug that emerged in South Asia appears to have claimed its first life.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 13 Aug. 2010
• There are a number of ways people can help combat the superbug problem and prevent it from getting worse.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2019
• And new data show the impact can still be seen in the number of infections caused by superbugs in U.S. hospitals.
  — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 29 May 2024
• India’s low research costs and deep pool of biotech graduates mean Bugworks isn’t alone in trying to stem the superbug tide.
  — Ari Altstedter, Bloomberg.com, 25 June 2018
• Since there may be other factors that have led to the emergence of this superbug, the authors suggest more research is needed.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 23 July 2019
• These survivors can spawn stronger, harder-to-treat superbugs like MRSA.
  — Brandon Noble, Time, 19 Nov. 2019
• These drugs could give rise to superbugs—bacteria that can’t be treated with modern medicine—and things are only getting worse.
  — Giorgia Guglielmi, Science | AAAS, 28 Sep. 2017
• Genetic analysis of the stool samples showed that the poop transplants helped reduce the number of superbugs.
  — Popular Science, 1 Nov. 2023
• On top of that is the concerning rise of superbugs, strains of bacteria with the highest resistance to multiple drugs.
  — Popular Science, 1 Nov. 2023
• Young children and the elderly are most at risk, too, but some of the superbugs are affecting otherwise healthy people.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2019
• Bacteria resistant to a medicine considered the last defense against superbugs has been found in countries around the world.
  — Mark Barna, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2016
• Studies of the recent rise of the mysterious superbug C. auris connect it to the climate crisis.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 15 Oct. 2019
• The talk at the McKittrick Hotel’s Masquerade soiree is all about the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs in 2017.
  — Isaac Oliver, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2017
• One 21-month superbug outbreak killed eight children in the hospital’s cancer ward.
  — Washington Post, 13 July 2017
• One of the largest superbug outbreaks in the nation occurred at Virginia Mason, where 39 people’s infections were linked to Olympus scopes.
  — Chad Terhune, Kaiser Health News, 25 July 2017
• These superbugs can’t be fought with any antibiotics, and getting infected with them can often be a death sentence.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 29 Jan. 2019
• But that doesn't mean eating undercooked meat today will spark a superbug outbreak.
  — Kate Sheridan, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2018
• The superbug is resistant to beta-lactam antibiotics, a broad-spectrum group which includes methicillin as well as oxacillin and the cephalosporins.
  — Ranjit Devraj, Quartz India, 23 July 2019
• The red berries of a weed found in the southern United States contain an compound that can disarm a deadly superbug, according to research published Friday.
  — Lena H. Sun, The Denver Post, 12 Feb. 2017
• The startup is working with bacteria-eating viruses called phages to isolate proteins that can make superbug-killing drugs.
  — Ari Altstedter, Bloomberg.com, 25 June 2018
• The bacteria this latest study found weren’t superbugs, but researchers said there were potential pathogens that would put patients at high risk of infection.
  — Chad Terhune, Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2018
• The goal wasn’t to make scary superbugs in the lab, but to take a step toward designing something that could help clean up antibiotic pollution from factories, sewage or farm waste.
  — NBC News, 30 Apr. 2018
• Her curiosity led her to a Scientific American article about the over-use of antibiotics, and how that has led to the rise of superbugs.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 July 2019
• While these instances are rare, some worry that M. gen is on its way to becoming a completely resistant superbug.
  — Caroline Hopkins, NBC News, 25 Sep. 2022
• That’s bad because the overuse of antibiotics can breed superbugs that are resistant to medications.
  — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 29 May 2024
• Also, in 2016, drug-resistant superbugs from hospital sewage were found in Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay.
  — Billy Stockwell, CNN, 18 June 2024

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024