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UK
/sˈuːpəbˌʌɡ/
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NOUN
- 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
How To Use superbug In A Sentence
- About 10,000 Irish patients contract the superbug each year.
- Launching a new drive against deadly superbugs, he will say people should not be afraid to challenge staff about hygiene. The Sun
- The government last week put a crackdown on hospital cleanliness at the centre of its fight against the superbug MRSA, which kills an estimated 5,000 in-patients every year in the UK.
- On the scale of media-freak-out irrationality, superbugs have more credibility than the Large Hadron Collider apocalypse, for example, but they're not even up there with swine flu.
- Public beaches may be one source of the surging prevalence of the superbug known as multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, researchers here said Saturday. Delusional Duck
- Recent breakthroughs, including the sequencing of the genome of an important bacterium and the discovery of a key to antibiotic resistance in one of the superbugs, are promising advancements.
- Researchers at IBM said they developed a tiny drug, called a nanoparticle, that in test-tube experiments showed promise as a weapon against dangerous superbugs that have become resistant to antibiotics. WHO Calls for Action on Superbugs
- Drug-resistant superbugs will make cancer untreatable, says health chief Times, Sunday Times
- The two antibiotic products tested had some antibacterial effectiveness against the superbug while Staphaseptic had a genuine "bactericidal" effect - meaning it killed the MRSA bacteria and reduced the number by a factor of 1,000. Health News from Medical News Today
- There are other big obstacles to overcome in the fight against superbugs. Times, Sunday Times
