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1. Viruses (Living Thing) -- Bacteria
   Some varieties of viruses attack only bacteria. These types are called bacteriophages. The bacteriophage lands on the bacterium and cuts a hole in the cell wall with its 'injection tube'. It then injects its genetic material into the bacterium. These inserted viral genes take over the bacterium's genetic machinery, and tell the bacterium to begin making new virus parts. These parts come together to make whole new viruses inside the bacterium.
2. Isoniazid -- Medicines
   Isoniazid is for injection into a muscle. Follow the directions on the prescription label. Use your doses at regular intervals and try not to miss any doses. Do not use your medicine more often than directed. Finish the full course prescribed by your prescriber or health care professional even if you think your condition is better. Do not stop using except on your prescriber's advice.
3. Antibiotic
   Antibiotic overuse by children is an increasing concern for parents and health professionals. Concern by parents is often driven by the worry that antibiotics suppress the immune system, a belief for which there is so far little good evidence. Concerns by health professionals are driven by worries about the rise of bacterial resistance. The overuse of common antibiotics such as amoxycillin is unmistakably increasing resistance to these antibiotics in the community, meaning that more powerful second line antibiotics increasingly have to be used for simple infections. This has a cascade effect, resulting in the slow erosion of doctors’ ability to treat serious infection.
4. Syphilis -- Men
   A pregnant woman with syphilis can transmit the disease to her unborn child, who may be born with serious mental and physical problems. The syphilis bacterium is very fragile... and the infection is rarely, if ever, spread by contact with objects such as toilet seats or towels.
5. Tuberculosis -- Body
   The predominant TB bacterium is Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis). Most people infected with M. tuberculosis never develop active TB. However, in people with weakened immune systems, especially those with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), TB organisms can overcome the body's defenses, multiply, and cause an active disease.
6. University of Maine -- New England
   The University of Maine's Darling Marine Center is part of the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry and Agriculture. Faculty at the Center are members of the University's School of Marine Sciences. The Darling Marine Center is a member of the National Association of Marine Laboratories and the New England Association of Marine and Great Lakes Laboratories.
7. Botox -- Toxins
   Botox® is a trade name for botulinum toxin A. In this way, Botox® is related to botulism. Botulism is a form of food poisoning that occurs when someone eats something containing a neurotoxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. Botulinum toxin A is one of the neurotoxins produced by Clostridium botulinum.
8. Robert Koch -- Diseases
   German bacteriologist Robert Koch won the 1905 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Known as the father of modern bacteriology, Koch proved that infectious diseases were caused by microorganisms and developed techniques for isolating and identifying disease-causing bacteria.
9. Tuberculosis -- Active Tuberculosis Disease
   Tuberculosis is an old disease that dates back to 2400 BC found in fragments in Egyptian mummies' spinal columns. It is commonly known as TB. There is latent Tuberculosis infection which progresses into Active Tuberculosis Disease. Only people with active TB can transmit the disease to others through coughing, spitting, speaking, and/or sneezing. It mainly attacks the lungs. People who suffer from tuberculosis cough a lot.
10. Tuberculosis -- Humans
    The relation between human and animal tuberculosis has been much debated. The bacillus in man very closely resembles that found in other mammalia, and they were considered identical until Koch threw doubt on this view at the British Congress on Tuberculosis in 1901. The British government thereupon appointed a royal commission to inquire into the relations of human and animal tuberculosis. The second interim report of the commission was issued in 1907, and the conclusions arrived at in it are: "That there seems to be no valid reason for doubting the opinion, never seriously doubted before 1901, that human and bovine bacilli belong to the same family. On this view the answer to the question, Can the bovine bacillus affect man? is obviously in the affirmative.

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