When you spend all day in a bio-lab, watching flesh-eating bacteria skeletonize small rodents, it really works up an appetite.

一整天都在生物试验室看着食肉细菌啃食小型啮齿动物很能增加食欲。

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The bacteria can invade through the skin to produce necrotizing fasciitis, giving them the popular name of flesh-eating bacteria.

这种病菌可侵入通过皮肤产生坏死性筋膜炎，使他们受欢迎的名字俗称食肉菌。

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A woman in the us who survived a five year battle with flesh-eating bacteria, undergoing dozens of operations, including an unusual bowel transplant, has given an interview about her ordeal.

一名美国妇女在与肉食细菌顽强抗争了5年之久，她接受了包括小肠移植在内的十多次手术，最近在采访中诉说了她的苦难经历。

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But this form of staph is actually starting to look like the flesh-eating bacteria.

NPR: Tracking a New Strain of Drug-Resistant Staph

We call - you know, the common name is flesh-eating bacteria.

NPR: Tracking a New Strain of Drug-Resistant Staph

People start calling it flesh-eating bacteria, that a few years - maybe more than a decade ago, when Jim Henson, the Muppets creator died, that was actually strep, which is a different bacteria.

NPR: Tracking a New Strain of Drug-Resistant Staph