microbe

"We don't see the microbe themselves but we large scale structures that the microbes constructed before they died," he said.

‘Oldest Signs of Life on Earth’ Found in Australia

The Telegraph

November 13, 2013

My failure to see a microbe is a statement about the precision of my instrument, not about whether there is a microbe on the leaf.

How Not to Cherry-Pick the Results of the Oregon Study (Ultrawonkish)

Megan McArdle

May 13, 2013

All that was needed to arm them with their fatal power was the arrival of some person infected with the microbe.

During recent years it has been discovered that the symptoms of phthisis and scrofula are due to a microbe, the tubercle bacillus.

If she has, I know it was you who put the microbe in her head.

We are trying here, as experimenters are trying elsewhere, to give immunity to animals against the microbe.

When we discover a microbe of that nature, we will be ready to act.