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Jacques Cartier named the island Ile St-Jean when he spotted it in the 16th century, but the French didn’t colonize it until after their retrenchment following the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht.
Esquivel arrived in 1510 and created a base called Nueva Sevilla near St. Ann’s Bay, from which he hoped to colonize the rest of the island.
Following ingestion, bacteria occasionally survive the formidable but imperfect gastric barrier, and colonize the gut [12].
•8th circa b.c.Greeks colonize Sicily and other southern regions
ARB can asymptomatically colonize a person for years: even if the number of other people infected during a single hospital visit is less than one, this number will exceed one when summed over several hospital visits [25,32,33].