Reid Harris, of the James Madison University, Virginia, worked on the bacterium with colleagues at Duke University.
By all accounts, the use of the half-micron-long bacterium with the official name Dehalococcoides ethenogenes has been a success.
Peacekeepers who were relocated from Nepal to Haiti in 2010 in the wake of a major earthquake imported the deadly cholera bacterium with them.
The causative organism of venereal syphilis is a slender, coiled, flexible bacterium with regular, tightly wound coils.
Another of Dr Venter's pet projects, creating a bacterium with a completely synthetic genome, could come into its own here.
In 2000, he published a paper reporting that he had translated his idea into a microscope that produced an image of a common bacterium with a resolution in detail higher than the Abbe limit.
In a prelude to later events with the human genome, Dr. Venter figured he could be first to decode a bacterium with a novel method called the shotgun technique.
They want to synthesise the entire DNA sequence of an individual bacterium, with crucial modifications to make the organism do new and interesting things and to pop the new chromosome into an empty cell.
The disease, named for R. W. Goss, a longtime Nebraska plant pathologist, is caused by a bacterium with the formidable name Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. nebraskensis.
Bacillus cereus is a gram positive bacterium with sporulation capacity.
In the Gram-positive groups, the bacterium with the worst outcome was Mycobacterium.
