bactericidal

IPA: bæktˈɪrʌsˈaɪdʌɫ

Examples of "bactericidal" in Sentences

Daptomycin exerts bactericidal activity without lysis of Staphylococcus aureus.
Many bleaches have strong bactericidal properties, and are used for disinfecting and sterilizing.
I refuse to be Polly Prissypants, walking around my own home wearing a bactericidal mask, having Howard Hughes-like soups prepared in a sterile dish.
It was bactericidal, meaning that it killed organisms outright rather than just slowing down the growth of a bacterial population as some other antibiotics did.
The two antibiotic products tested had some antibacterial effectiveness against the superbug while Staphaseptic had a genuine "bactericidal" effect - meaning it killed the MRSA bacteria and reduced the number by a factor of 1,000.
It becomes "bactericidal," produces a bactericidal poison (called an alexin) which is usually present in normal blood, but is greatly increased when large numbers of certain poisonous microbes (_e. g._ those of typhoid fever) get into the blood.