Mycobacteria

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Noun
  1. 1
    plural of mycobacterium form-of, plural
  2. 2
    rod-shaped bacteria some saprophytic or causing diseases wordnet

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mycobacterium

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"Until now, scientists couldn’t distinguish the silent bacteria from the active ones to know whether dormant mycobacterium were being killed by different compounds. Abramovitch and colleagues developed a strain of the pathogen that glows bright green. They found it stopped glowing after artemisinin came into contact with the mycobacteria’s oxygen biosensor, presumably dying."

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