microbe

Converse of subject

• cause: He believes they were all caused by a microbe called Acinetobacter, first detected in the wounds of US servicemen in Vietnam.

Converse of object

• invade: Our immune system protects us from disease, destroying invading microbes with a swarm of attacking cells.
• destroy: He set out to find dyes that would destroy other infectious microbes within the body.
• kill: A short period under high light conditions will effectively kill the microbes.
• contain: Almost 90 % of American cows contain a cancer-causing microbe called bovine leukemia virus.
• call: You will often hear people call microbes - GERMS.
• use: Using microbes to produce enzymes for scientific use is an industry in its own right.

Preposition: in

• soil: Their raw material may be trees, plants, shrimps, butterflies, spiders, toads or microbes in soil.
• environment: The number of microbes in aquatic environments is immense.

Adjective modifier

• disease-causing: Probiotic bacteria modulate the immune system and provide an ecological balance in the gut that excludes disease-causing microbes.
• pathogenic: One of the major medical problems facing mankind is the resistance of many pathogenic microbes to existing antibiotics.
• aquatic: Aquatic microbes perform many more functions, some of which can be exploited in the biotechnology industry.
• harmful: These ' good ' organisms compete with and dominate the more harmful microbes.
• beneficial: Liquid feed can be drained off and is alive with with beneficial microbes.
• infectious: He set out to find dyes that would destroy other infectious microbes within the body.

Noun used with modifier

• rumen: But the ruminant is equipped with the rumen microbes to degrade and utilize such material for food production for humans.
• freshwater: To investigate the potential of marine and freshwater microbes for use in the biotechnology industry.
• gut: They found that gut microbes can open the ' ' gates ' ' fat uses to enter the body's fat cells.
• soil: They could grow better on contaminated land with help from soil microbes.
• traps: The dark film, known as desert varnish, traps microbes and other life forms in its sticky surface.