1.   Although most public supplies in developed countries are chlorinated, Reid believes the bacteria could still survive inside the biofilm.

2.   Despite the sterilization procedures undertaken by the West Chester biologists, a present day bacterium may have survived in some invisible crack in the crystal, Lindahl suggested.

3.   During drying, the moisture drops so much that most bacteria cannot survive.

4.   Erratic treatment, however, may allow some bacteria to survive, become resistant and reproduce millions of even more deadly communicable agents.

5.   I doubt even bacteria could have survived that assault.

6.   It was designed to test how well antibiotic-resistant bacteria from meat survive in the human digestive tract.

7.   Most bacteria cannot survive this onslaught.

8.   The bacterium can survive for several years in the litter of dead animals and then reinfect the new occupiers of the burrows.

9.   These bacteria evidently survived for millions of years in frigid cold and total darkness.

10.   UV radiation from the Sun killed nearly all the spores, confirming that single bacteria would not survive long enough in space to travel from one planet to another.