Mycobacterium leprae is a parasitic bacterium that can only survive inside host cells.
E. coli O157 H7 is a food-borne bacterium that can cause bloody diarrhea and dehydration.
The newborn tested positive for Cronobacter sakazakii, an environmental bacterium that can be fatal.
And the foreign gene is often inserted using a bacterium that can cause a disease in plants.
There, researchers have isolated a bacterium that can consume dichloroethene and vinyl chloride, organic compounds that form from commonly used industrial solvents.
The vaccine, known as Hib, protects against haemophilus influenzae type B, a bacterium that can inflame the lining of the brain or cause pneumonia.
Last year, a bacterium that can cause a disease called leptospirosis was found early in the production process for Rituxan, another drug produced there.
In China standard drugs are now ineffective over a third of the time against a bacterium that can cause severe lung infections.
The Government's food watchdog said that one in 30 boxes of imported eggs had salmonella, a bacterium that can cause nasty - and occasionally fatal - food poisoning.
THERE are 16 sick people in Colorado, their bodies ravaged by a bacterium that can shred intestines, clog kidneys and eventually be fatal.
Listeria is a common bacterium that can be found in abundance on farms, where it lives in the soil, plant matter, water and manure.
