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superbug

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8 lettersPart of speech nounSorted begprsuuStarts with SEnds with G0 clues
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Definitions

  1. A germ, especially a bacterium, resistant to multiple drugs.

Word origin

From super- + bug.

Used in a sentence

  • But now we’re seeing increasing numbers of superbugs that survive antibiotics. One of the best-known —[is] MRSA, a kind of staph infection [that]— kills about 18,000 Americans annually. That’s more than die of AIDS.

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