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bacillus
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Any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming aerobic bacteria in the genus Bacillus, some of which cause disease.
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It came from Asia, arriving the way most new species still do, along trade routes; and it was carried by rats, which carried fleas, which carried the bacillus concerned.For hundreds of years botanical gardens, zoos, arboreta, estate owners and random well-off or merely curious individuals have collected, maintained and distributed exotic plants and animals from around the globe.
The inference widely drawn by the press and by opponents of genetic modification, though not by Dr Losey himself, was that monarchs were at risk in the wild.The insecticide is a protein called Cry, normally produced by a bacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis (known, for short, as Bt).
Here is what they say they were working on: Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis).
American researchers say the strain of the bacillus found is more common in laboratories than in the wild.
The process starts by growing Bacillus cereus (a carbonate-generating bacterium) in the laboratory.
Was the bacillus of totalitarianism that infected Germany first bred in Russia?
Caught early, the bacillus responds to antibiotics.
Bacillus frequently occur in chains.
June 24 , 1852Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany April 9, 1915 Berlin, Germany Friedrich August Johannes Löffler, (born June 24 , 1852 Frankfurt an der Oder, Prussia [Germany] died April 9, 1915, Berlin) German bacteriologist who, with Edwin Klebs, in 1884 discovered the organism that causes diphtheria, Corynebacterium diphtheriae, commonly known as the Klebs Löffler bacillus.
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(A bacillus is a rod-shaped bacterium).
Although the goal was not reached by that date in some parts of the world (notably India and Brazil)—because of the difficulty of mounting health campaigns in populous and poor regions, the sheer numbers of affected people, and the peculiarly long incubation time of the leprosy bacillus cases of the disease declined substantially worldwide.
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