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Use "oomycetes" in a sentence
"Microbes using this infection mechanism include fungi that are currently causing wheat rust epidemics in Africa and Asia, and a class of parasitic algae, called oomycetes, that resulted in the Irish potato blight of the 19th Century."
"Fungi and fungal-like microbes known as oomycetes produce effector molecules that penetrate cells and switch off the host's defense system."
"The researchers also found evidence suggesting that fungi and oomycetes might infect humans and animals through the same newly-discovered mechanism as they use to infect plants."