Microbe Monday – 6/25/18

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Think you can guess this microbe?

Here are today’s clues:

• it’s a bacteria
• is resistant to many antibiotics
• can cause life-threatening infections in bones, joints, bloodstream and vital organs
• found in the nose or on the skin of 1/3 of the population
• generally a harmless bacteria
• is sphere shaped
• has a diameter of roughly 1 micron
• doesn’t form spores
• is not motile
• first reports of the bacteria were from the UK in 1961
• is considered a “superbug”

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