The regional health department, however, said a preliminary test had failed to locate the bacterium that causes the disease.
They've made Clostridium perfringens, a bacterium that causes gas gangrene, a condition in which the flesh rots.
The dish was labeled "anthrachs," a misspelling of anthrax, and "yersinia," the bacterium that causes bubonic plague.
The bacterium that causes dental cavities, Streptococcus mutans, is highly contagious.
THE BOTTOM LINE A bacterium that causes ulcers may also raise the risk of diabetes.
In contrast, the bacterium that causes syphilis (Treponema pallidum) has a high degree of invasiveness.
The researchers describe Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium that causes stomach ulcers, as highly likely to have been passed by humans to Neanderthals.
Nonetheless, we know that the bacterium that causes gonorrhoea can rapidly develop resistance to other antibiotics that are used for treatment, so we cannot afford to be complacent.
That means Haitians lack immunity to the bacterium that causes the disease, and medical workers lack the experience to deal with it.
The bacterium that causes leprosy spreads through the body by converting nerve cells into stem cells with migratory properties, according to research published today in the journal Cell.
