Word: bacterias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...definitive test for the disease. Doctors must base their diagnosis on such circumstantial evidence as abnormal spots on white blood cells and a low level of white cells or platelets in the blood. Furthermore, the drug most commonly used for Lyme disease -- amoxicillin -- is useless against the Ehrlichia bacteria...
Already this bacterial Rip Van Winkle is being touted as a trailblazer for a new industry. Ambergene Corp. of San Carlos, California, a small biotech firm Cano helped start, claims to have used similar techniques to reanimate nearly 1,500 prehistoric microorganisms ranging from bacteria to yeast. Among the compounds these tiny creatures produce, Cano and his partners hope to identify unique drugs, industrial enzymes and natural pesticides. The company is already filing for patents on promising microbes...
...Connecticut biochemist Peter Setlow, Cano is a long way from convincing critics "beyond a shadow of a doubt that the microbe he has isolated is an ancient one." Setlow agrees, however, that Cano has made the most compelling case possible. For instance, he has clearly established that his bacteria -- while related to Bacillus sphaericus, a living resident of apiarian digestive tracts -- are genetically distinct from known microbes. The catch is, something like 95% of the bacteria that populate today's world have not even been identified, much less analyzed by scientists...
...visit to Kuwait, the U.N.'s top weapons inspector suggested that Iraq may have produced bacteria for biological weapons. "We have certain suspicions about one facility," said Rolf Ekeus, adding the U.N. Special Commission overseeing the destruction of Iraq's non-conventional weapons was told the material had "disappeared in the general turmoil" during the Gulf...
Sean Fitzpatrick, a spokesperson for the state health department, said Monday the cases at the two colleges were unrelated. He said the Amherst students were stricken with a Group C bacteria, while the Western New England student had been infected with a Group Y bacteria...