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bactericidal

ADJECTIVE
  1. preventing infection by inhibiting the growth or action of microorganisms

How To Use bactericidal In A Sentence

  • UV light is known to have bactericidal activity and could have curative properties as far as secondary bacterial infections are concerned.
  • I refuse to be Polly Prissypants, walking around my own home wearing a bactericidal mask, having Howard Hughes-like soups prepared in a sterile dish. A bright orange bag on the carousel
  • It becomes "bactericidal," produces a bactericidal poison (called an alexin) which is usually present in normal blood, but is greatly increased when large numbers of certain poisonous microbes (_e. g._ those of typhoid fever) get into the blood. More Science From an Easy Chair
  • It is also a bactericidal agent among other antimicrobial agents, such as penicillin, sulfa, and tetracycline.
  • Some antimicrobials are bactericidal whereas others are bacteriostatic.
  • A previous study has demonstrated that fluoroquinolones such as ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, levofloxacin, moxifloxacin, and gatifloxacin exhibit bactericidal activity against stationary phase and persistent. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • It was bactericidal, meaning that it killed organisms outright rather than just slowing down the growth of a bacterial population as some other antibiotics did. SUPERBUG
  • The bactericidal agent triclosan modulates thyroid hormone-associated gene expression and disrupts postembryonic anuran development. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • Daptomycin exerts bactericidal activity without lysis of Staphylococcus aureus. SUPERBUG
  • It becomes "bactericidal," produces a bactericidal poison (called an alexin) which is usually present in normal blood, but is greatly increased when large numbers of certain poisonous microbes (_e. g._ those of typhoid fever) get into the blood. More Science From an Easy Chair
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