How to Use superbug in a Sentence

superbug

noun
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  • The good news is that the superbugs are not common elsewhere in the hospitals.
    — NBC News, 6 Feb. 2018
  • The misuse and overuse of the drugs, which is unlikely to stop soon, cause the mutations which lead to superbugs.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 6 July 2018
  • The threat of those lurking superbugs is realized in the case report of the Ukrainian soldier, a man in his mid-50s.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 July 2023
  • Moreover, the superbugs that are already here also need to be treated.
    — Jayasree K. Iyer, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The antibiotics-resistant superbug that emerged in South Asia appears to have claimed its first life.
    — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 13 Aug. 2010
  • There are a number of ways people can help combat the superbug problem and prevent it from getting worse.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2019
  • India’s low research costs and deep pool of biotech graduates mean Bugworks isn’t alone in trying to stem the superbug tide.
    — Ari Altstedter, Bloomberg.com, 25 June 2018
  • Since there may be other factors that have led to the emergence of this superbug, the authors suggest more research is needed.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 23 July 2019
  • These survivors can spawn stronger, harder-to-treat superbugs like MRSA.
    — Brandon Noble, Time, 19 Nov. 2019
  • These drugs could give rise to superbugs—bacteria that can’t be treated with modern medicine—and things are only getting worse.
    — Giorgia Guglielmi, Science | AAAS, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Genetic analysis of the stool samples showed that the poop transplants helped reduce the number of superbugs.
    — Popular Science, 1 Nov. 2023
  • On top of that is the concerning rise of superbugs, strains of bacteria with the highest resistance to multiple drugs.
    — Popular Science, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Young children and the elderly are most at risk, too, but some of the superbugs are affecting otherwise healthy people.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Bacteria resistant to a medicine considered the last defense against superbugs has been found in countries around the world.
    — Mark Barna, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2016
  • Studies of the recent rise of the mysterious superbug C. auris connect it to the climate crisis.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 15 Oct. 2019
  • The talk at the McKittrick Hotel’s Masquerade soiree is all about the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs in 2017.
    — Isaac Oliver, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2017
  • One 21-month superbug outbreak killed eight children in the hospital’s cancer ward.
    — Washington Post, 13 July 2017
  • One of the largest superbug outbreaks in the nation occurred at Virginia Mason, where 39 people’s infections were linked to Olympus scopes.
    — Chad Terhune, Kaiser Health News, 25 July 2017
  • These superbugs can’t be fought with any antibiotics, and getting infected with them can often be a death sentence.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 29 Jan. 2019
  • But that doesn't mean eating undercooked meat today will spark a superbug outbreak.
    — Kate Sheridan, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2018
  • The superbug is resistant to beta-lactam antibiotics, a broad-spectrum group which includes methicillin as well as oxacillin and the cephalosporins.
    — Ranjit Devraj, Quartz India, 23 July 2019
  • The red berries of a weed found in the southern United States contain an compound that can disarm a deadly superbug, according to research published Friday.
    — Lena H. Sun, The Denver Post, 12 Feb. 2017
  • The startup is working with bacteria-eating viruses called phages to isolate proteins that can make superbug-killing drugs.
    — Ari Altstedter, Bloomberg.com, 25 June 2018
  • The bacteria this latest study found weren’t superbugs, but researchers said there were potential pathogens that would put patients at high risk of infection.
    — Chad Terhune, Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2018
  • The goal wasn’t to make scary superbugs in the lab, but to take a step toward designing something that could help clean up antibiotic pollution from factories, sewage or farm waste.
    — NBC News, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Her curiosity led her to a Scientific American article about the over-use of antibiotics, and how that has led to the rise of superbugs.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 July 2019
  • While these instances are rare, some worry that M. gen is on its way to becoming a completely resistant superbug.
    — Caroline Hopkins, NBC News, 25 Sep. 2022
  • The superbug is showing a special talent for picking up genes that give it the ability to resist a broad range of antibiotics, the team at Houston Methodist hospital system said.
    — Maggie Fox, NBC News, 16 May 2017
  • And now that the bacteria which cause the disease is morphing into a superbug, developing new treatments is key.
    — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 8 July 2017
  • That’s because doctors must prescribe new antibiotics as sparingly as possible to slow the spread of superbugs.
    — Howard Dean, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2024

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