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UK
/maɪkɹˈəʊbɪəl/
]
[ US /maɪˈkɹoʊbiəɫ/ ]
[ US /maɪˈkɹoʊbiəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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of or involving or caused by or being microbes
microbial warfare
How To Use microbial In A Sentence
- This nascent bleach can also react with primary or secondary amines to form longer lasting, antimicrobial chloramines.
- The fungi also coat tree roots, protecting against microbial pathogens and drought.
- Breast milk contains a range of antimicrobial proteins, including immunoglobulins, lysozyme, and lactoferrin.
- The use of subtherapeutic doses of antimicrobial drugs may drive down hog prices and lower profits for the entire hog industry, a new government report says.
- Use of the following five antimicrobial ingredients is well documented in the clinical literature.
- The use of physical or chemical means to destroy all microbial life including highly resistant bacterial endospores.
- However, during infection and damage phenols and oxidases, such as peroxidase and tyrosinase, become decompartmentalized and could oxidize phenolic compounds to form antimicrobial quinones.
- They show considerable sequence homology to pleurocidins, antimicrobial peptides of the flounder, Pseudopleuronectes americanus.
- Silver: Before the dawn of antibiotics, silver was used on the skin as an antimicrobial agent and disinfectant and internally to treat epilepsy, gonorrhea and tropical sprue.
- The only other interaction between an antimicrobial drug and alcohol is with cycloserine, an anti-tuberculosis drug – the two together increase the risk of convulsions. Doctor, doctor: Alcohol and antibiotics, milk and prostate cancer