Some people fear there may be worse to come: that a strain of resistant bacterium might start an epidemic for which no treatment was available.

一些人担心还会有更糟糕的事情发生：某一品种的抗药细菌可能导致一种无法治愈的疾病。

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A tiny molecule harvested from a soil bacterium on Easter Island that evolved billions of years ago for no obvious purposes should have nothing to do with human beings.

复活节岛上土壤中的一种微生物产生的化学物质在亿万年的演变中，本应与人类没有直接关系。

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For all the satellites and rovers that have studied Mars since, there has been no sign of so much as a bacterium.

此后，所有用于研究火星的卫星和探测器就连细菌都没有发现。

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These are derived forms of bacteria that are adapting to artificially stringent environmental conditions, and they were found in a geologically young lake so no, this is not the bacterium primeval.

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Yet there are no substantiated reports of antibiotic-resistance genes jumping from a plant to a bacterium.

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Specifically they discovered that Pythium ultimum, a fungus that attacks aubergines, peppers, lettuces, tomatoes and cucumbers as seedlings, Clavibacter michiganensis, a bacterium that kills young plants and deforms fruits, and Streptomyces scabies, a second bacterium, which causes potatoes to develop revolting scabs and for which no treatment currently exists, all stopped growing in the presence of the oil.

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