The toxin that causes diphtheria is produced by a normally benign bacterium when infected with a certain virus.
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Bacterium
//bækˈtɪəɹ.ɪəm//
Synonyms for "bacterium" (22 found)
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18 entriesShowing 16 of 18 words.
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1 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesderived
41 entriesShowing 16 of 41 words.
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1 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
6 entriesTranslations
98 translations across 79 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- bakterie noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Albanian
1 entries- bakter noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Arabic
1 entries- جُرْثُومَة noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Armenian
1 entries- բակտերիա noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Asturian
1 entries- bacteria noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- bakteriya noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Belarusian
1 entries- бактэ́рыя noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Bengali
1 entries- ব্যাক্টেরিয়া noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Bulgarian
1 entries- бакте́рия noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Burmese
1 entries- ဗက်တီးရီးယား noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Catalan
1 entries- bacteri noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Chinese
1 entries- 細菌 /细菌 noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 細菌 /细菌 noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 細菌 /细菌 noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Czech
1 entries- bakterie noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Danish
1 entries- bakterie noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Dutch
1 entries- bacterie noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Esperanto
1 entries- bakterio noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Estonian
1 entries- bakter noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Farefare
1 entries- bakterium noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Finnish
1 entries- bakteeri noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
French
1 entries- bactérie noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Galician
1 entries- bacteria noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Georgian
1 entries- ბაქტერია noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
German
2 entries- Bakterie noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
- Bakterium noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Greek
1 entries- βακτήριο noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Hebrew
1 entries- חַיְדַּק \ חידק noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Hindi
2 entries- कीटाणु noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
- जीवाणु noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Hungarian
1 entries- baktérium noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Icelandic
2 entries- baktería noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
- gerill noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Indonesian
2 entries- bakteri noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
- kuman noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Interlingua
1 entries- bacterio noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Italian
1 entries- batterio noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Japanese
2 entries- バクテリア noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
- 細菌 noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Kazakh
1 entries- бактерия noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Khmer
1 entries- បាក់តេរី noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Korean
2 entries- 박테리아 noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
- 세균 noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- бактерия noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Lao
1 entries- ບັກເຕຣີ noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Latin
1 entries- bactērium noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Latvian
1 entries- baktērija noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Limburgish
1 entries- bacterie noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Lithuanian
1 entries- bakterija noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Macedonian
1 entries- бактерија noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Malay
2 entries- bakteria noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
- kuman noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Marathi
1 entries- जीवाणू noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Mongolian
4 entries- бактери noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
- нян noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
- ᠨᠢᠶᠠᠨ noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
- ᠪᠠᠻᠲ᠋ᠧᠷᠢ noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Māori
1 entries- huakita noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- bakterie noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- bakterie noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Occitan
2 entries- bacteria noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
- bactèri noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Pashto
2 entries- باکتري noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
- باکتېريا noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Persian
1 entries- باکتری noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Polish
1 entries- bakteria noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Portuguese
1 entries- bactéria noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Quechua
1 entries- añaki noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Romanian
1 entries- bacterie noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Russian
1 entries- бакте́рия noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Sanskrit
1 entries- जीवाणु noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- bàktērija noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
- ба̀кте̄рија noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Slovak
1 entries- baktéria noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Slovene
1 entries- bakterija noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Spanish
1 entries- bacteria noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Swahili
1 entries- bakteria noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Swedish
1 entries- bakterie noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Tagalog
2 entries- bakterya noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
- ishay noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Tajik
1 entries- бактерия noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Tamil
2 entries- நுண்ணுயிரி noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
- நுண்மம் noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Tatar
1 entries- бактерия noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Thai
3 entries- บักเตรี noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
- บัคเตรี noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
- แบคทีเรีย noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Turkish
1 entries- bakteri noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Turkmen
1 entries- bakteriýa noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Ukrainian
1 entries- бакте́рія noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Urdu
2 entries- بیکٹیریا noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
- جَرْثُومَہ noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Uyghur
1 entries- باكتېرىيە noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Uzbek
1 entries- bakteriya noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Vietnamese
2 entries- vi khuẩn noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
- vi trùng noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Volapük
1 entries- bakter noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Yoruba
1 entries- bakitéríà noun (single-celled organism with no nucleus or organelles)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
This bacterium is resistant to penicillin.
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Do not confuse a virus with a bacterium.
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Koalas face many threats, including chlamydia – a bacterium that can cause pneumonia and infertility.
Source: tatoeba (9002301)
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