Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A strain of bacteria that has become resistant to most antibiotics.
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- noun colloquial A
strain ofbacteria that has becomeresistant to manyantibiotics . - noun US An
insect , Bemisia tabaci, that is a seriouspest .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a strain of pest accidentally imported into Florida from the Middle East then spread to California where it is a very serious pest feeding on almost all vegetable crops and poinsettias
- noun a strain of bacteria that is resistant to all antibiotics
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Examples
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They were victims of a scary "superbug" - a bacterial staph infection for which there is now no known cure.
Danny Schechter: In the Age of the Superbugs: What is the Remedy? 2008
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MELISSA BLOCK, host: A so-called superbug has made its way to this country from India.
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MELISSA BLOCK, host: A so-called superbug has made its way to this country from India.
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MELISSA BLOCK, host: A so-called superbug has made its way to this country from India.
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MELISSA BLOCK, host: A so-called superbug has made its way to this country from India.
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CHETRY: Well after Brazilian supermodel was killed by an infection now known as the superbug, there are new concerns about this drug-resistant bacteria, how common is it, and if you wind up in a hospital, could you be in danger of catching an infection like this as well?
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This idea that you can actually take gator blood, it could possibly use in some way to treat burns, ulcerations, even what is known as the superbug, MRSA.
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HARRIS: You know, we have been hearing a lot about the so-called superbug this week with deaths reported in Virginia and Georgia.
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So some very tough feelings out here about the death of this young man from what is now being called the superbug -- Don.
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Medical experts attribute the emergence of the so-called superbug to three factors: the indiscriminate use of antibiotics; patients failing to use all their prescribed antibiotics; and the use of antibiotics in animal feed.
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