0 a very small living thing, especially one that causes disease, that can only be seen with a microscope
1 a very small living thing, esp. one that causes disease, and which is too small to see without a microscope (= device that makes very small objects look larger)
This would potentially facilitate competition between microbes and reduce the risk of a small number of pathogens dominating and, therefore, proliferating.
This can take measurements using fluorescence to establish the three microbe states: viable, dead or dormant.
However, amazing adaptations to extreme stresses do not only occur in microbes, but also in many multicellular organisms.
The next phase of our work focuses on exploring the alterations in physiological mechanisms that might allow for growth of eukaryotic microbes at acid extremes.
The early microbe hunters knew this, and they took the task of cash-out seriously.
I would perhaps most recommend this book to microbiologists interested in the response of microbes to high pressures and the biochemical basis for this response.
Instead, like microbes that are essentially too small to see, he would have appeared other than as he essentially was.
The microbe is often isolated only from patients but not from the water source.
