| anthrax bacterium | 9.48 | Anthrax bacteria were in his blood. | ||
| salmonella bacterium | 2.83 | They also may carry salmonella bacteria. | ||
| soil bacterium | 1.51 | Normally the common soil bacterium divides by binary fission. | ||
| cholera bacterium | 1.32 | The cholera bacteria lives in human feces. | ||
| methanogenic bacterium | 0.92 | When sulphate availability is limited, methanogenic bacteria may then predominate. | ||
| tuberculosis bacterium | 0.92 | Tuberculosis bacteria eat away at the lungs of sufferers. | ||
| plague bacterium | 0.86 | A Japanese plane had dropped plague bacteria on the vilage. | ||
| listeria bacterium | 0.79 | The listeria bacteria can, in severe cases, cause infection of the brain and meningitis. | ||
| pylorus bacterium | 0.59 | Antibiotics kill the H. pylori bacteria, curing the ulcers. | ||
| sulphate bacterium | 0.59 | Sulphate reducing bacteria were never detected, and methane excretion was not affected by sulphate feeding. | ||
| gut bacterium | 0.53 | E. coli is a common gut bacteria that is normally harmless. | ||
| staphylococcus bacterium | 0.53 | Eczema is exacerbated by staphylococcus bacteria, Metcalfe noted. | ||
| pertussis bacterium | 0.46 | This vaccine uses a whole cell of pertussis bacteria that is inactivated, usually with heat. | ||
| shigella bacterium | 0.46 | Illness caused by shigella bacteria normally last at least a week, but can last longer. | ||
| streptococcus bacterium | 0.39 | Norwalk Hospital admitted a man and a woman at separate times last week stricken by streptococcus bacteria. | ||
| kill bacterium | 0.33 | Heat processing kills bacteria but can also alter flavor. | ||
| aureus bacterium | 0.26 | The staphylococcus aureus bacteria, or staph, can sicken people with a weakened immune system but is usually not lethal. | ||
| chlamydia bacterium | 0.26 | The disease, trachoma, is caused by strains of the chlamydia bacterium. | ||
| food bacterium | 0.26 | More recently, it has been used in some areas to kill potentially deadly food bacteria. | ||
| vibrio bacterium | 0.26 | She noted that laboratory tests showed that the diarrhoea was caused by the vibrio cholera ogawa bacteria. |