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mycobacterium
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noun
- any of the rod-shaped Gram-positive bacteria of the genus Mycobacterium , some of which cause human diseases, such as tuberculosis and leprosy
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Caused by bacteria mycobacterium tuberculosis, tuberculosis disease is spread through the air.
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He and his colleagues were building a library of the proteins that make up the mycobacterium that causes TB.
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Both were exposed to mycobacterium abscessus, likely to have come from the site's water supply.
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He squints into microscopes looking for the rod-shaped mycobacterium leprae cells that drive this disease.
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He wasn’t certain that this was mycobacterium marinum, but it was a persuasive story.
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