0 relating to microbes (= very small living things, especially ones that cause disease):
microbial biotechnology
Health care workers are at risk from the chemicals used in hospitals to prevent microbial colonization.
Not cooking food can lead to higher health risks, due to microbial contamination.
The secret test might have permanently changed the microbial ecology of the region.
I also understand that some of you have expressed concerns in relation to the use of antibiotics in animal production and the related risk of development of resistance to anti-microbials.
Calcite precipitation rate decreased with depth, and deeper microbial structures are more commonly compacted.
Besides underestimation of the real total number of microorganisms, these indirect methods provide no information on physiological state of single microbial cells in situ.
Seasonal effects on microbial biomass were few and inconsistent across locations.
Microbial communities in permafrost samples were investigated by in-situ techniques of lipid microbial biomarkers analyses.
