Researchers were able to show how the bacterium travelled by forensically analysing its genetic code.
The cost and time taken to sequencing the whole genome of a bacterium has plummeted.
What if a home-brew synthetic-biology club were accidentally to launch a real virus or bacterium?
Anthrax is an infectious, potentially fatal disease caused by a spore-forming bacterium known as Bacillus anthracis.
The specific bacterium responsible, Clostridium novyi Type A is found in soil and animal droppings.
It also attacked Streptococcus mutans, an acid-producing bacterium which is a major cause of tooth decay.
Last year Brazil released, to world acclaim, the genomic sequencing of a bacterium that attacks oranges.
Yet there are no substantiated reports of antibiotic-resistance genes jumping from a plant to a bacterium.
According to this team, the bacterium has 1, 590 genes (people, for comparison, have about 80, 000).
They have examined the smallest-known bacterium called Mycoplasma genitalium which has just 480 genes.
Consider Wolbachia, a bacterium that lives inside the cells of more than two-thirds of insects.
This bacterium can cause life-threatening intestinal infections in sick patients and is often resistant to antibiotics.
This molecule is a derivative of the antibiotic geldanamycin, which itself comes from the soil bacterium streptomyces.
Because existing antibiotics target specific bacterial molecules, a mutation in the bacterium can render the drugs ineffective.
They contain the blueprints for how a human being, a plant or a bacterium, looks and functions.
The patent also covers use of the bacterium in ointments, creams and lotions for treating gynaecological conditions.
It appears to be related to a bacterium transmitted by the potato psyllid's relative, the citrus psyllid.
Approximately a third of the total population of the world has been infected with the TB bacterium.
They said the effect was very similar to antibiotics, which attack and dissolve the bacterium's cell wall.
It should prompt the mother's immune system to create more antibodies to attack the whooping cough bacterium.
Although yeast is a simple organism, its molecular biology is a lot more mammal-like than a bacterium's.
But you must develop specific antibodies to what are called the "virulence factors" or toxins of the bacterium.
The Clostridium perfringens bacterium is a common cause of food poisoning and affects mostly red meat or poultry.
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Another resistant bacterium has tormented hundreds of wounded soldiers brought home from Iraq.
Grown in a petri dish, the synthetic bacterium looks almost identical to the natural version and can similarly self-replicate.
The new bacterium is a member of the Pseudomonas Tolaasi subgroup of organisms.
Anthrax is an acute infectious disease caused by the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis.
They altered the carotenoid biosynthesis pathway by inserting a gene from a bacterium.
It was urban crowding that made the bacterium so successful and so virulent.
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The bacterium's opportunities to jump to a new victim grew fewer and fewer.
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