A starter is a nice word for a bacteria culture.

starter对细菌培养来说是个不错的词儿。

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Mr. Jobs, would you describe Apple as a bacteria or a virus?

乔布斯桑，请问您是否会将苹果描述成细菌或者病毒？

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Kenya's Lake Magadi blushes under a bacteria bloom following a rainstorm.

肯尼亚的玛格达湖，经过一场暴风雨之后，细菌大规模地繁殖使得湖水呈现红色。

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But Legionella bacteria can cause a form of pneumonia in people with weakened immune systems.

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So, I have a bacteria infection, stimulates my immune system, I start making antibodies that bind to an antigen specific to that bacteria.

所以 如果我被细菌感染了,我的免疫系统被激活,开始制造抗体,这些抗体结合到细菌特异性的抗原上

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When they do that they can actually engulf the bacteria in a process called phagocytosis and break them down into antigens.

免疫细胞确实是将细菌整个吞进了肚内,这一过程称为吞噬作用,并将细菌分解成小抗原

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Sandia National Laboratories is working on a bacteria-killing agent to clean contaminated offices.

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OspA is produced specifically by Borrelia burgdorferi, a bacteria that causes Lyme disease.

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They released tiny droplets containing Staphyloccus aureus, a bacteria related to MRSA, from a heated mannequin simulating the human body.

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