Bacillus

The bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine for tuberculosis causes front-line immune cells to make long-lasting biological “marks” on their DNA, changing how they read genetic instructions for fighting off viruses, the researchers say.

Spores from Bacillus pumilus SAFR-032 are proving to have the ability to resist the techniques to clean spacecraft, like ultraviolet radiation and peroxide treatment.

'This again,' said the Bacteriologist, slipping a glass slide under the microscope, 'is a preparation of the celebrated Bacillus of cholera - the cholera germ.'

"You will conceive a bunch of grapes," said he, "which are covered by some infinitesimal but noxious bacillus.

The “bacillus of boom or depression,” he wrote, travels freely “from country to country.”