superbug

A noun referring to a strain of bacteria that has become resistant to multiple types of antibiotics, making infections difficult to treat.

• 🇷🇺Существительное, обозначающее штамм бактерий, который стал устойчивым к нескольким типам антибиотиков, что затрудняет лечение инфекций.

1. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria C1 formal medical

   A strain of bacteria that has become resistant to all known antibiotics, making infections difficult or impossible to treat.

   • Hospitals are taking extra precautions to prevent the spread of superbugs.
   • The patient was infected with a superbug that did not respond to standard treatments.
   • Researchers are urgently developing new drugs to combat superbugs.

   🇷🇺Супербактерия

2. Invasive pest species C1 formal american scientific

   A highly resilient and destructive pest, originally from the Middle East, that was accidentally introduced to Florida and has since spread to California, where it feeds on a wide variety of vegetable crops and poinsettias.

   • The superbug has devastated tomato and pepper crops in California.
   • Farmers are struggling to control the superbug population without harming beneficial insects.
   • The superbug's ability to feed on poinsettias has also impacted the ornamental plant industry.

   🇷🇺Инвазивный вид-вредитель

• superbugs plural form
• superbugs' possessive plural form
• superbug's possessive singular form